Monday 12 February 2018

unwholesome man

[[ A hard-drinking wife-beating 'unwholesome' man is executed by the community but comes back as a zombie to have one last drink at the local saloon with his wife, then walks back to the cemetery. Yeah. Call and response. Maybe two singers alternating on most lines, maybe overlapping like an echo. ]]

unwholesome man
(unwholesome man)
he was a man would
(he was a man would)

take a fist to his woman
take a bottle to his bed
take a fist to his woman
take a bottle to his bed
take a fistful of dream
stick it all in his head

they said that man's an animal
they said put a man down
they said that man's an animal
they said put a man down
next day it fell on a Thursday  
next day sheriff put him in the ground

unwholesome man...

take a fist to his woman...

sheriff put him in the ground

that man he dug himself out again
that man stood under the moon
that man he dug himself out again
that man stood under the moon
that man could smell it was Friday
man walked to the local saloon

unwholesome man...

take a fist to his woman...

sheriff put him in the ground
dead man walked back to town

that man had a penny on his left eye 
that man had a penny on his right
that man had a penny on his left eye 
that man had a penny on his right
that man slid a penny to the barman  
bar man said you drink all night

unwholesome man...

take a fist to his woman...

sheriff put him in the ground
man walked back to town
man bought another round

that man stood next to his woman
woman said I've nothing to say 
that man stood next to his woman
woman said I've nothing to say 
that man knocked back his last whisky
said I'll see you on Judgment Day

unwholesome man...

take a fist to his woman...

sheriff put him in the ground
man walked back to town
man bought another round
never made another sound
walked back out of town


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