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Singing Through The Slaughter

from A Candle For Durruti by Al Grierson

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SINGING THROUGH THE SLAUGHTER

Stranger at my open door,
Such a shabby troubadour
In your clothes that smell of war, other lands and ocean water,
Is there news of any cheer?
Well there’s some been awful queer
In the wind that brought you here singing through the slaughter

Silly exile, don’t you know
Foreign winds don’t have to blow
Why’d you think you had to go read the dreams of Pharoah’s daughter?
Some day soon she’ll be a queen
She’ll quit asking what they mean
And about the things you’ve seen singing through the slaughter

Beat the Devil, roll the dice
There’s a bridge in Paradise
You don’t get to cross it twice and see her face again

When my lover goes to sleep
Angels at her floral feet
All her sorrows in a heap, all the pleasures love has brought her
And a song of simple prayer
She can use to bless the air
Til the morning finds her there singing through the slaughter

Beat the Devil, roll the dice
There’s a bridge in Paradise
You don’t get to cross it twice and see her face again

Then the kings come out to play
In their coats of blue and grey
Watch 'em slingin, see them sway, hear them teeter, see them totter
One for Abel, two for Cain in the gently falling rain
Nothing but the stars remain singing through the slaughter

One for Abel, two for Cain in the gently falling rain
Nothing but the stars remain singing through the slaughter

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from A Candle For Durruti, released January 1, 1999

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