Who'll build a box for Paul? I'm enquirin' on behalf of his I'd be to ya all for a little 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 books and his All his books and his notes and all the junk he wrote The fuckin' lot right up in smoke
Ain't there nothin' sacred Won't someone build a box for Black Paul?
They're off his guns, they're shootin' off their mouths Sayin' 'Fuck us and die', fuck with us and die see that rat of fear go scuttle in their skulls Cover that eye, cover frozen eye
puppet in a heap up against the stonin' wall Black go to sleep, mama won't scold you anymore
Armies of ants wade up the 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 stone at Black Paul?
ask us say the critics and the hacks The pen pushers and the We just come to get the Oh we just come to get the
Here is the that build the scaffold and built the box Here is the shovel dug a hole in this ground of rocks And here is the pile of and for each one planted God only knows, a blood rose and listen
These are the demon flowers These are the true flowers Stand back everyone, black everyone Blood black, stand
Who'll build a box for Black And carry it up the hill?
Not I said the widow, her veil I will not drive the nail or cart his puppet body For I that one hundred times before Yes, one hundred times or
And why I dress his wounds? he has wounded my dress Nightly, right across the
Who'll build a box for Black And who'll, carry it up the hill? Now who'll bury him in the black
From the and the thickets the ghosts of his victims We love you, I you And this will not a bit
'Outta my eyes we shall rise to fall, to to glory Spring up the [Incomprehensible] Spring up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up 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 lies Black Paul under the upper But above and beyond the flat fall there
And, and, and, and all the angels come on And all you men and women crowd And all the old widows weeping into skites And all the little and the little 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 Paul singin' like a lonely boy
Well, I cried one thousand tears And I've cried a thousand tears, true And the stormy night 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 down And just ain't heaven Without that little hangin' around
Well, am I about bein' a bad man? The Lord knows I done good things too But I confess my soul will never rest until you, until you've you build a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too