Who'll a box for Black Paul? I'm enquirin' on behalf of his I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a little a little indication, just who will dig the hole?
When ya ransackin' his room, grabbin' anythin' that shines I the scraps down on a street like all his books and his notes All his and his notes and all the junk that he wrote The fuckin' lot right up in smoke
Ain't there nothin' sacred Won't someone will build a box for Paul?
They're shootin' off his guns, they're off their mouths 'Fuck with us and die', fuck with us and die Let's see that rat of fear go scuttle in skulls Cover eye, cover that frozen eye
Black in a heap up against the stonin' wall Black go to sleep, mama won't scold you anymore
Armies of ants wade up the red streams Are for the mother 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 pushers and the We come 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 in this ground of rocks And is the pile of stones and for each one planted God knows, a blood rose grown and listen
These are the demon flowers are the true demon flowers Stand back everyone, blood everyone Blood black, back
Who'll a box for Black Paul? And carry it up the hill?
Not I said the widow, her veil I will not the nail or cart his puppet body home For I done that one hundred times Yes, one hundred or more
And why I dress his wounds? When he has wounded my Nightly, across the floor
build a box for Black Paul? And who'll, who'll it up the hill? Now who'll bury him in the soil?
From the and the thickets Come the ghosts of his We you, I love you And this not hurt a bit
'Outta my eyes we shall to fall, to fall to glory Spring up from the up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up into death Up, up, up, up, up, up, up inhale its Yes, death favours those that favor
is the stone and this is the inscription at bare Below lies Black under the upper But above and beyond the flat fall there
And, and, and, and all the angels come on 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 poised
All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all of the his throat of Black Blood And Black Paul like a lonely boy
Well, I have one thousand tears And I've a thousand tears, it's 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 hair hangin' And heaven just heaven Without that little girl hangin'
Well, am I laughin' bein' a bad man? The Lord I done some good things too But I confess my soul will never rest until you, until you've Until you a box for my gal too, my gal too, my gal too