Who'll build a box for Paul? 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 his room, grabbin' anythin' that shines I the scraps down on a street like all his books and his notes All his books and his notes and all the junk he wrote The whole fuckin' lot right up in
Ain't there nothin' anymore? Won't someone build a box for Black Paul?
They're off his guns, they're shootin' off their mouths Sayin' with us and die', fuck with us and die Let's see that rat of fear go in their skulls that eye, cover that frozen eye
Black puppet in a heap up against the stonin' Black puppet go to sleep, won't scold you anymore
Armies of ants wade up the little red 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 first stone at Paul?
ask us say the critics and the hacks The pen and the quacks We just come to get the Oh we come to get the facts
Here is the hammer that build the scaffold and 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 blood rose and listen
These are the demon flowers These are the demon flowers Stand back everyone, blood black black, stand back
Who'll a box for Black Paul? And carry it up the hill?
Not I the widow, adjusting her veil I will not drive the nail or cart his body home For I done that one times before Yes, one hundred or more
And why I dress his wounds? When he has my dress Nightly, right across the
Who'll a box for Black Paul? And who'll, carry it up the hill? Now who'll bury him in the soil?
From the and the thickets Come the of his victims We love you, I you And will not hurt a bit
my eyes 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 inhale its Yes, death favours those that favor
Here is the stone and this is the at bare Below lies Black Paul under the But above and the surface flat fall there
And, and, and, and all the come on down And all you men and crowd around And all the old widows weeping into their 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 throat of Blood And Paul singin' like a lonely boy
Well, I have cried one thousand And I've a thousand tears, it's true And the next stormy night you 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 heaven just heaven Without that little hangin' around
Well, am I laughin' bein' a bad man? The Lord knows I some good things too But I my soul will never rest until you, until you've built you build a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too