Who'll build a box for Black I'm enquirin' on behalf of his I'd be beholdin' to ya all for a little 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 like all his books and his All his books and his notes and all the that he wrote The whole lot right up in smoke
Ain't there nothin' sacred Won't someone build a box for Black Paul?
They're shootin' off his guns, they're shootin' off their Sayin' with us and die', fuck with us and die Let's see rat of fear go scuttle in their skulls Cover that eye, that frozen eye
Black puppet in a heap up the stonin' wall Black puppet go to sleep, mama scold you anymore
Armies of ants wade up the red streams Are headin' for the 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 stone at Black Paul?
ask us say the critics and the hacks The pen and the quacks We just come to get the Oh we just come to get the
Here is the hammer that the scaffold and built the box Here is the shovel dug a hole in this ground of rocks And here is the of stones and for each one planted God only knows, a blood rose and listen
These are the true flowers These are the demon flowers Stand back everyone, blood black Blood black, stand
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 or cart his puppet body 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, right the floor
Who'll build a box for Black And who'll, carry it up the hill? Now who'll bury him in the black
From the woods and the Come the of his victims We love you, I you And this not hurt a bit
my eyes 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 its breath Yes, death favours that favor death
is the stone and this is the inscription at bare Below lies Black Paul under the But above and beyond the surface flat there
And, and, and, and all the angels on down And all you men and women around And all the old weeping into their skites And all the gals and the little boys And the scribes with their pens
All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all the All the hullabaloo, all of the Clears his throat of Blood And Black Paul like a lonely boy
Well, I have cried one thousand 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 hair hangin' And heaven ain't heaven Without that girl hangin' around
Well, am I laughin' about a bad man? The Lord knows I done some 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