Who'll build a box for Black I'm on behalf of his soul I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a little a little indication, just who will dig the hole?
When ya ransackin' his room, grabbin' anythin' that shines I throw the scraps down on a like all his books and his notes All his and his notes and all the junk that he wrote The whole lot right up in smoke
there nothin' sacred anymore? Won't 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 go scuttle in their skulls that eye, cover that frozen eye
Black puppet in a up against the stonin' wall Black puppet go to sleep, mama scold you anymore
Armies of ants up the little red streams Are for the mother 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 first stone at Paul?
Don't ask us say the and the hacks The pen pushers and the We just come to get the Oh we come to get the facts
Here is the hammer build the scaffold and built the box Here is the shovel that dug a in this ground 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 demon flowers Stand back everyone, blood black Blood black, stand
Who'll build a box for Black And who'll carry it up the
Not I the widow, adjusting her veil I will not drive the nail or cart his puppet body For I done one hundred times before Yes, one times or more
And why I dress his wounds? When he has wounded my Nightly, right across the
Who'll a box for Black Paul? And who'll, who'll carry it up the Now bury him in the black soil?
the woods and the thickets Come the ghosts of his We you, I love you And will not hurt a bit
my eyes we shall rise to fall, to fall to glory Spring up from the Spring up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up death Up, up, up, up, up, up, up its breath Yes, favours those that favor death
Here is the stone and this is the inscription at lies Black Paul under the upper But above and beyond the surface fall there
And, and, and, and all the come on down And all you men and women around And all the old widows weeping into skites And all the gals and the little boys And the scribes with their poised
All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all of the his throat of Black Blood And Paul singin' like a lonely boy
Well, I have cried one thousand And I've cried a thousand tears, it's And the next stormy night you I'm still cryin' them for you
Well, I had, I had a gal, she was so Red dress, long and red hangin' down And heaven just heaven Without that girl hangin' around
Well, am I laughin' about bein' a bad The Lord I done some good things too But I confess my soul will never rest until you, you've built you build a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too