[[ 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
(unwholesome man)
he was a man would
(he was a man would)
take a fist to his womantake a bottle to his bedtake a fist to his womantake a bottle to his bedtake a fistful of dreamstick 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 grounddead 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 groundman walked back to townman 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 groundman walked back to townman bought another roundnever made another soundwalked back out of town
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