Who'll build a box for Paul? I'm on behalf of his soul I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a information Just a little indication, who will dig the hole?
When ya done ransackin' his room, anythin' that shines I throw the scraps down on a like all his books and his notes All his books and his notes and all the that he wrote The whole fuckin' lot right up in
Ain't there sacred anymore? Won't someone will build a box for Black
shootin' off his guns, they're shootin' off their mouths Sayin' with us and die', fuck with us and die see that rat of fear go scuttle in their skulls Cover that eye, that frozen eye
Black puppet in a heap up against the wall Black puppet go to sleep, mama won't scold you
Armies of ants up the little red streams Are for the mother pool Oh Lord it's cruel, oh man hot Oh man, it's hot and some of those ants they just clap to the
Who threw the first stone at Paul?
Don't ask us say the critics and the The pen pushers and the We just to get the facts Oh we just come to get the
Here is the that build the scaffold and built the box Here is the shovel that dug a hole in this ground of And here is the pile of stones and for each one God knows, a blood rose grown and listen
These are the demon flowers These are the true flowers Stand everyone, blood black everyone Blood black, back
build a box for Black Paul? And who'll carry it up the
Not I said the widow, adjusting her I will not drive the nail or cart his puppet home For I done one hundred times before Yes, one hundred times or
And why should I his wounds? When he has my dress Nightly, across the floor
Who'll build a box for Paul? And who'll, carry it up the hill? Now who'll bury him in the black
From the and the thickets Come the ghosts of his We love you, I you And this will not a bit
'Outta my eyes we rise to fall, to fall to glory Spring up the [Incomprehensible] up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up into death Up, up, up, up, up, up, up its breath Yes, death favours those favor death
Here is the stone and this is the at bare Below lies Paul under the upper But and beyond the surface flat fall there
And, and, and, and all the angels on down And all you men and women crowd And all the old widows weeping into their And all the little and the little boys And the scribes their 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 singin' a lonely boy
Well, I have cried one tears And I've cried a thousand tears, true And the stormy 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 hangin' down And heaven ain't heaven Without little girl hangin' around
Well, am I laughin' bein' a bad man? The Lord knows I some good things too But I confess my soul will never until you, until you've built Until you a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too