We soak the mush from bleeding chests Our wings they need-a-fixin We swarm the oven's open jaw Our talons spread wide, glisten We coax the Father's tenderness From neath his chin unshaved And smash him way upside the head For all the souls he's saved
(Chorus) And we buried him in the shallows And we buried him far and wide And he swayed some more from the gallows Of the bitter cold countryside
Well he came from the great big city To instill in us shrunken brows And he came without any rifles Any chickens, pigs, or cows
And he came on Sunday morning On the coldest day of the year But we don't want no uninvited City slickers to come 'round here
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And he came with a badge of courage And a book and a bag of gold And he rode in on a white pony That Ol' Bobby Wiley eventually sold
And he came a-preachin' Jesus Fearing God, goodwill and hope Then he loosened up his collar And I said "Floyd....get a rope"
Then we hung him from the rafters And we lynched him in the barn Then we wrapped him from head to toe With some of Aunt Opal's finest yarn
Then we chopped him into six pieces Two arms, two legs and a head And his mid-section made a fine table Next to Jimmy-O-Wilkinson's bed
And his toes now creep in the river And his fingers they tickle the corn And his skull flies high in the hemlock.... From dusk till the early morn
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So let this be a warnin' To you God fearin' urban scum If you wanna live in the country We're gonna show you how it's done -DONE!