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, just who dig the hole?
When ya ransackin' his room, grabbin' anythin' that shines I throw the scraps down on a street all his books and his notes All his books and his and all the junk that he wrote The whole lot right up in smoke
Ain't there nothin' anymore? Won't someone will a box for Black Paul?
shootin' off his guns, they're shootin' off their mouths Sayin' 'Fuck with us and die', fuck us and die Let's see that rat of fear go in their skulls Cover that eye, cover frozen eye
Black puppet in a heap up the stonin' wall Black puppet go to sleep, mama scold you anymore
Armies of ants up the little red streams Are for the mother pool Oh it's cruel, oh man it's hot Oh man, hot and some of those ants they just clap to the spot
Who threw the first stone at Black
Don't ask us say the critics and the The pen pushers and the We just come to get the Oh we just to get the facts
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 stones and for each one God only knows, a blood grown and listen
These are the true flowers These are the demon flowers Stand back everyone, blood everyone black, stand back
Who'll a box for Black Paul? And who'll carry it up the
Not I said the widow, her veil I will not the nail or cart his puppet body home For I done that one times before Yes, one times or more
And why should I his wounds? he has wounded my dress Nightly, across the floor
Who'll build a box for Black And who'll, who'll carry it up the Now who'll him in the black soil?
From the and the thickets the ghosts of his victims We love you, I you And this will not a bit
'Outta my we shall rise to fall, to fall to glory Spring up the [Incomprehensible] 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 death
Here is the and this is the inscription at bare Below lies Black under the upper But above and beyond the surface fall there
And, and, and, and all the come on down And all you men and women crowd And all the old widows weeping into their 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 of Black Blood And Black Paul singin' like a boy
Well, I have cried one thousand And cried a thousand tears, it's true And the next stormy night you That I'm cryin' them for you
Well, I had, I had a gal, she was so Red dress, long and red hair down And heaven just ain't Without little girl hangin' around
Well, am I laughin' about bein' a bad The Lord knows I done good things too But I confess my soul never rest until you, until you've built you build a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too