Planting Skip James

from Son of Dust by Dr. Marigaux

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lyrics

He couldn’t live on Air Puddings
Not in a serpents nest
It was the Age of Preparation
As they laid him down to rest

Well, he got cancer where you don't’ talk about
And they had to cut it off
He blamed a girl in Tunica
For a hoodoo she put on him when he ran off
It was 1969
And the football players waved at the man who played the blues
And they got it done before lunch
Twenty after eleven
Don’t take long to plant you

Well, they sent him home to die
And he said, if it would please the lord, he would stop playing blues
But it was scorpions eating him alive, from the inside
He could see them in his stool

It was 1969
Ands seven cars followed the hearse of the man who played the blues
They got him in the ground in the morning
Twenty after eleven
Before lunch.