This song is as pointedly relevant today as when it was written over 100 years ago as the patter song from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore. Played and sung by Sam Edelston with a 3-string chromatic dulcimer.

Guide for the perplexed:
* Writs -- Legal notices.
* Articled clerk -- Basically, an apprentice to a solicitor (lawyer).
* Pass examination -- Basically, the bar exam for an aspiring solicitor.
* Ween -- Believe. (Archaic, from Middle English.)
* Pocket borough -- Legislative district where a single nobleman or family controlled who was elected to Parliament, by bribing all the voters. This practice was made illegal a few years before Pinafore was written.
* Landsmen -- People unfamiliar with the sea or sailing.

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Technical details: Chromatic dulcimer built by Ron Ewing, tuned DAD, played in the key of G. The song can be played without special frets, but it's better with a 0+ and 1+, and a couple of ornaments use the 3+. Song by Gilbert & Sullivan.