Who'll build a box for Black I'm enquirin' on behalf of his I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a information Just a little indication, who will dig the hole?
When ya done ransackin' his room, grabbin' that shines I throw the scraps down on a street like all his and his notes All his books and his notes and all the that he wrote The whole fuckin' lot up in smoke
Ain't nothin' sacred anymore? someone will build a box for Black Paul?
They're shootin' off his guns, they're shootin' off their Sayin' with us and die', fuck with us and die Let's see that rat of go scuttle in their skulls Cover that eye, cover that eye
puppet in a heap up against the stonin' wall Black puppet go to sleep, won't scold you anymore
of ants wade up the little red streams Are headin' for the pool Oh Lord cruel, oh man it's hot Oh man, it's hot and some of those ants they clap to the spot
Who threw the first stone at Black
Don't ask us say the and the hacks The pen pushers and the We just come to get the Oh we just to get the facts
Here is the hammer that build the scaffold and the box Here is the that dug a hole in this ground of rocks And here is the pile of and for each one planted God only knows, a rose grown and listen
These are the demon flowers These are the true demon Stand back everyone, black everyone Blood black, back
build a box for Black Paul? And who'll carry it up the
Not I said the widow, adjusting her I will not drive the or cart his puppet body home For I done that one hundred times Yes, one times or more
And why should I his wounds? he has wounded my dress Nightly, right across the
build a box for Black Paul? And who'll, carry it up the hill? Now who'll bury him in the black
From the woods and the Come the ghosts of his We love you, I you And this not hurt a bit
my eyes we shall 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 inhale its Yes, death favours those favor death
Here is the stone and this is the inscription at Below lies Black Paul under the But above and beyond the surface flat fall
And, and, and, and all the angels on down And all you men and crowd around 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 his throat of Black Blood And Black Paul singin' like a boy
Well, I cried one thousand tears And I've cried a thousand tears, true And the next stormy you know I'm still cryin' them for you
Well, I had, I had a gal, she was so Red dress, long and red hair hangin' And heaven just ain't Without that girl hangin' around
Well, am I laughin' bein' a bad man? The Lord knows I some good things too But I confess my soul will never rest until you, until built you build a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too