Who'll a box for Black Paul? I'm enquirin' on behalf of his I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a little 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 like all his books and his All his and his notes and all the junk that he wrote The whole lot right up in smoke
Ain't there nothin' anymore? Won't someone will build a box for Paul?
They're shootin' off his guns, they're off their mouths Sayin' 'Fuck with us and die', fuck us and die Let's see rat of fear go scuttle in their skulls Cover that eye, that frozen eye
Black puppet in a heap up against the wall Black puppet go to sleep, mama won't scold you
Armies of ants wade up the little red Are headin' for the pool Oh Lord it's cruel, oh man hot Oh man, it's hot and of those ants they just clap to the spot
Who threw the first stone at Paul?
ask us say the critics and the hacks The pen and the quacks We come to get the facts Oh we just come to get the
Here is the hammer build the scaffold and built the box Here is the shovel that dug a hole in this of rocks And here is the pile of and for each one planted God knows, a blood rose grown and listen
are the true demon flowers These are the true flowers Stand back everyone, black everyone black, stand back
Who'll build a box for Paul? And who'll carry it up the
Not I said the widow, her veil I not drive the nail or cart his puppet body home For I done that one hundred before Yes, one hundred times or
And why should I dress his When he has my dress Nightly, right the floor
Who'll build a box for Black And who'll, who'll carry it up the Now who'll him in the black soil?
the woods and the thickets Come the ghosts of his We love you, I you And will not hurt a bit
'Outta my eyes we shall rise to fall, to to glory Spring up the [Incomprehensible] 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 that favor
Here is the stone and is the inscription at bare Below lies Black Paul the upper But above and beyond the flat fall there
And, and, and, and all the angels come on And all you men and crowd around And all the old widows weeping into their And all the little and the little boys And the with their pens poised
All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all of the Clears his throat of Blood And Black Paul singin' like a boy
Well, I have one thousand tears And I've cried a tears, it's true And the next stormy you know That I'm still cryin' for you
Well, I had, I had a gal, she was so Red dress, long and red hair down And heaven ain't heaven Without that little hangin' around
Well, am I laughin' about a bad man? The Lord I done some good things too But I confess my soul never rest until you, until you've built Until you a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too