Spinning Song Lyrics

Three traditional versions of the song from Murder Ballads. Nick's version is also available. Further details (and the actual book Nick edited from) are also available. Stagolee B...Read Full Lyrics

It was back in '32 when times were hard He had a colt. 45 and a deck of cards Stagger lee He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old stetson hat Had a '28 ford, had payments on that Stagge...Read Full Lyrics

The cops are hanging around the house The cars outside look like they've got the blues The moon don't know if it's day or night Everybody's creeping around with plastic covers on t...Read Full Lyrics

Hey hey I am the stow-a-way Hey hey I am the stow-a-way My girl turned blue as an iceberg do And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her Baby baby don't blow away Hey hey I am the st...Read Full Lyrics

All the towers of ivory are crumbling And the swallows have sharpened their beaks This is the time of our great undoing This is the time that I'll come running Straight to you For ...Read Full Lyrics

Sugar Sugar Sugar That man is bad The road he drives you down O sugar it's a drag That road it twists That road is crossed Its down that road A lot of little girls go lost Sugar ...Read Full Lyrics

Stranger than kindness Bottled light from hotels Spilling everything Wet hand from the volcano Sobers your skin Stranger than Kindness You caress yourself And grind my soft cold bo...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1] I lay in the forest amongst the butterflies and the fireflies And the burning horses and the flaming trees As a spiral of children climb up to the sun Waving ...Read Full Lyrics

Sunday's got a slave Monday's got one too Sunday's got a slave Monday's got one too Our sufferings are countless Our pleasures are motley few Spend all day digging my grave Now go ...Read Full Lyrics

Through the windswept coastal trees Where the dead come rising from the sea With a teddy-bear clamped between her knees She says, where can my loverman be? Well, I'm down here, bab...Read Full Lyrics