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A Dying Man Can Sure Sing The Blues

from A Dying Man Can Sure Sing The Blues by Muleskinner Jones

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They marched us on the evening train
Through sheet mnetal winds and needle rain.
Four long years we'd spent at war
Though it felt like forty more.

We marched for miles without no shoes,
Til our feets was cut to ribbons
And the bones showed through.

And if there's one thing that I now know to be true
It's that a dying man can sure sing the blues.

It was a sticky stormy evening,
How the winds did howl,
When Slaughterhouse Bill and his boys came round,
Chewing their tobacco and spitting it on the ground,
Saying "What's your position boy?
Are you gonna fight to free the niggers?
Or fight to free the South?"

So I left the town and the girl whom I'd loved so well
And began a slow descent into hell.

And the one thing I'd learn before it all was through
Was that a dying man can sure sing the blues.

So cart that Goddam cannon cross the mire,
Where the bodies of the wounded are on fire.
It's been seven weeks since I ate beef or bread,
The air is thick with powder smoke and lead,
And the moonlight glistening
On amputated limbs
Marks the thin line twixt the living and the dead.

And the last thought that I thunk before the charges blew
Was that a dying man can sure sing the blues.

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from A Dying Man Can Sure Sing The Blues, released May 13, 2013
Lyrics and music by James R Closs. Performed by Muleskinner Jones.

Background vocals by Harmony Blaise and Elvis Jai Closs, Ameila and Angel Walker.

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