Who'll build a box for Black I'm on behalf of his soul I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a information a little indication, just who will dig the hole?
When ya done ransackin' his room, grabbin' 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
Ain't there nothin' anymore? someone will build a box for Black Paul?
They're off his guns, they're shootin' off their mouths Sayin' 'Fuck with us and die', with us and die Let's see that rat of fear go scuttle in skulls Cover eye, cover that frozen eye
Black puppet in a heap up against the 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 they just clap to the spot
Who threw the first stone at Paul?
ask us say the critics and the hacks The pen pushers and the We just come to get the Oh we just to get the facts
is the hammer that build the scaffold and built the box Here is the that dug a hole in this ground of rocks And here is the pile of stones and for each one God only knows, a blood grown and listen
These are the true demon These are the true flowers back everyone, blood black everyone Blood black, back
Who'll build a box for Paul? And who'll carry it up the
Not I the widow, adjusting her veil I will not drive the nail or cart his puppet home For I done that one hundred times Yes, one hundred times or
And why I dress his wounds? he has wounded my dress Nightly, right the floor
build a box for Black Paul? And who'll, carry it up the hill? Now who'll him in the black soil?
From the woods and the Come the of his victims We love you, I you And will not hurt a bit
'Outta my 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 into Up, up, up, up, up, up, up its breath Yes, death favours those that death
Here is the and this is the inscription at bare Below lies Black under the upper But above and beyond the surface flat 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 gals and the little And the scribes with their pens
All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all of the Clears his throat of Black And Black Paul like a lonely boy
Well, I have cried one thousand And I've a thousand tears, it's true And the stormy night you know That I'm cryin' them for you
Well, I had, I had a gal, she was so Red dress, long and red hangin' down And just ain't heaven Without that girl hangin' around
Well, am I laughin' about a bad man? The Lord I done some 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