Who'll build a box for Black I'm enquirin' on behalf of his I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a little Just a indication, just who will dig the hole?
When ya done ransackin' his room, grabbin' anythin' shines I throw the scraps down on a street like all his books and his All his books and his and all the junk that he wrote The whole fuckin' lot up in smoke
Ain't nothin' sacred anymore? Won't someone will build a box for Paul?
shootin' off his guns, they're shootin' 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 up against the stonin' wall Black go to sleep, mama won't scold you anymore
Armies of ants wade up the red streams Are for the mother 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 stone at Black Paul?
ask us say the critics and the hacks The pen pushers and the We come to get the facts Oh we just come to get the
Here is the hammer that build the and built 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 true demon These are the demon flowers Stand back everyone, blood everyone Blood black, stand
Who'll build a box for Paul? And who'll carry it up the
Not I said the widow, adjusting her I not drive the nail or cart his puppet body home For I done that one times before Yes, one hundred or more
And why should I his wounds? When he has my dress Nightly, right the floor
Who'll build a box for Black And who'll, carry it up the hill? Now bury him in the black soil?
the woods and the thickets Come the ghosts of his We love you, I you And this not hurt a bit
'Outta my eyes we shall 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 that favor
is the stone and this is the inscription at bare Below lies Black Paul the upper But above and beyond the surface flat there
And, and, and, and all the come on down And all you men and women crowd And all the old weeping into their skites 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 like a lonely 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 them for you
Well, I had, I had a gal, she was so Red dress, long and red hair hangin' And just ain't heaven Without that little girl around
Well, am I laughin' bein' a bad man? The Lord knows I done some good too But I confess my soul will rest until you, until you've built you build a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too