Dead Man’s Song
Young Billy Brown felt a drop of rain on his face
He said Lord it’s gonna come down hard
So he ate his supper but he didn’t say grace
And he buried the gun in the neighbor’s yard
And the radio’s broken, but the television’s fixed
On the face of a wanted man
I heard his car startin’ in the middle of the night
And the tomcat’s fightin’ by the garbage can
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Cain and Abel and Heaven and Hell
Black and White and write and wrong
I seen an old man smile like a newborn child
I heard a young boy sing himself a deadman’s song
Nothin’s as spooky as time to think
About the blood all over your hands
Now you can’t deny it there’s a Pontious Pilate
In the belly of every woman and man
And Billy was drivin’ baby barely survivin’
Past the briars and brambles and the thorns
Past a scarecrow hangin’ from the center of the sky
Sentenced to die on the day that he was born
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The first crack of light in the side of the night
Looks just like a bad dream
You see the dawn is silent but the dawn is violent
And the dawn sets fire to everything
Live and burn that’s all Billy learned
As the big black shriveled and died
Sloth and Lust and Greed and Anger and Envy and Gluttony and Pride
Sloth and Lust and Greed and Anger and Envy and Gluttony and Pride
Chorus
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