Black Betty Lyrics

The wintergreen, the juniperThe cornflower and the chicoryWell all of the words you said to meAre still vibrating in the airThe elm, the ash and the linden treeThe dark and deep, e...Read Full Lyrics

I don't believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if I did, I would kneel down and ask HimNot to intervene when it came to youOh, not to touch a hair on ...Read Full Lyrics

All the towers of ivory are crumblingAnd the swallows have sharpened their beaksThis is the time of our great undoingThis is the time that I'll come runningStraight to youFor I am ...Read Full Lyrics

I don't believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if I did, I would kneel down and ask HimNot to intervene when it came to youOh, not to touch a hair on ...Read Full Lyrics

I live in a town called MillhavenAnd it's small and it's mean and it's coldBut if you come around just as the sun goes downYou can watch the whole thing turn to goldIt's around abo...Read Full Lyrics

I am tall and I am thinOf an enviable heightAnd I've been known to be quite handsomeIn a certain angle and a certain light Well I entered into O'Malley'sSaid, "O'Malley I have a th...Read Full Lyrics

Take a little walk to the edge of townAnd go across the tracksWhere the viaduct loomsLike a bird of doomAs it shifts and cracksWhere secrets lie in the border firesIn the humming w...Read Full Lyrics

They dragged Jack and his shadowFrom the holeAnd the bulb that burned above himDid shine both day and nightAnd his shadow learned to love hisLittle darks and greater lightAnd the s...Read Full Lyrics

People just ain't no goodI think that's well understoodYou can see it everywhere you lookPeople just ain't no goodWe were married under cherry treesUnder blossom we made our vowsAl...Read Full Lyrics

One more man goneOne more man goneOne more man One more man goneOne more man goneOne more man One more man goneOne more man goneOne more man is gone The good son walks into the fie...Read Full Lyrics