Who'll build a box for Paul? I'm enquirin' on of his soul I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a information Just a little indication, just who dig the hole?
When ya done his room, grabbin' anythin' that shines I throw the scraps down on a street all his books and his notes All his and his notes and all the junk that he wrote The whole fuckin' lot up in smoke
Ain't there nothin' anymore? Won't will build a box for Black Paul?
shootin' 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 that eye, cover frozen eye
Black puppet in a heap up against the wall Black puppet go to sleep, mama won't scold you
of ants wade 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 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 to get the facts Oh we just come to get the
is the hammer that build the scaffold and built the box Here is the shovel that dug a hole in ground of rocks And here is the pile of stones and for one planted God only knows, a rose grown and listen
are the true demon flowers These are the demon flowers back everyone, blood black everyone Blood black, stand
Who'll a box for Black Paul? And who'll it up the hill?
Not I said the widow, her veil I will not drive the nail or cart his puppet home For I done that one hundred before Yes, one hundred times or
And why should I his wounds? When he has wounded my Nightly, across the floor
Who'll a box for Black Paul? And who'll, who'll carry it up the Now who'll bury him in the black
From the woods and the Come the ghosts of his We you, I love you And this not hurt a bit
'Outta my eyes we 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, death favours those favor death
Here is the and this is the inscription at bare Below lies Paul under the upper But above and beyond the flat fall there
And, and, and, and all the angels on down And all you men and women crowd And all the old widows into their skites And all the little 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 Clears his of Black Blood And Paul singin' like a lonely boy
Well, I have cried one tears And I've cried a thousand tears, it's And the next night 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 hangin' And just ain't heaven Without that little girl hangin'
Well, am I laughin' about bein' a bad The knows I done some good things too But I confess my soul will never rest until you, you've built Until you a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too