Who'll a box for Black Paul? I'm enquirin' on behalf of his I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a information Just a little indication, just who dig the hole?
When ya done ransackin' his room, grabbin' anythin' that I throw the scraps down on a street all his books and his notes All his books and his notes and all the junk he wrote The whole fuckin' lot up in smoke
Ain't there nothin' sacred someone will build a box for Black Paul?
They're shootin' off his guns, shootin' off their mouths Sayin' 'Fuck us and die', fuck with us and die Let's see that rat of fear go in their skulls Cover that eye, cover that eye
Black puppet in a heap up the stonin' wall Black puppet go to sleep, mama won't you anymore
of ants wade up the little red streams Are headin' for the pool Oh it's cruel, oh man it's hot Oh man, it's hot and of those ants they just clap to the spot
Who threw the stone at Black Paul?
Don't ask us say the and the hacks The pen pushers and the We come to get the facts Oh we just to get the facts
Here is the hammer that the scaffold and built the box is the shovel that dug a hole in this ground of rocks And here is the pile of and for each one planted God knows, a blood rose grown and listen
These are the demon flowers These are the true demon back everyone, blood black everyone Blood black, back
Who'll build a box for Paul? And carry it up the hill?
Not I said the widow, adjusting her I will not drive the nail or cart his body home For I done one hundred times before Yes, one times or more
And why should I dress his When he has my dress Nightly, across the floor
Who'll build a box for Paul? And who'll, carry it up the hill? Now who'll him in the black soil?
From the woods and the Come the of his victims We love you, I you And this will not a bit
'Outta my eyes we rise to fall, to fall to glory Spring up from the up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up into death Up, up, up, up, up, up, up its breath Yes, favours those that favor death
is the stone and this is the inscription at bare Below lies Paul under the upper But and beyond the surface flat fall there
And, and, and, and all the come on down And all you men and women crowd And all the old widows weeping into their And all the little gals and the boys And the scribes with pens poised
All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all of the Clears his of Black Blood And Black Paul singin' like a boy
Well, I cried one thousand tears And cried a thousand tears, it's true And the stormy night you know That I'm cryin' them for you
Well, I had, I had a gal, she was so Red dress, and red hair hangin' down And heaven just heaven that little girl hangin' around
Well, am I laughin' bein' a bad man? The knows I done some good things too But I confess my will never rest until you, until you've built Until you a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too