Big Rude Jake - Road Outta Hell lyrics

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1.

Black Bird, Black Bird,

Way up in the sky,

When you turn a lazy circle

Will you turn a blind eye?

Don’t you tell no one you saw me

At the corner five and dime,

With a naggin’ notion floatin’

In the corner of my mind

I hear the Black Bird singin,,

“Who mills these chains?”

I hear the Black Bird cryin’,

“Who fans these flames?”

And the riddle of the Black Bird,

Is a secret in itself,

‘Bout a drowsy Purgatory

And the road outta hell

Chorus:

So Long Pappy,

So Long

When you wake up in the mornin’

I’ll be done long gone

When the Frog in the rushes

Sings a rusty bagatelle,

I’ll be walkin’ like a Texan

On the road outta hell

2.

Hey, Brother Badger,

Whose that calling to me?

From the gravel, in the shadows,

From the thistles in the weeds?

In the song of the Cicada

In the flabby summer heat?

In the dust devils spinnin’

In the middle of the street?

Hey Brother Badger,

Tell me is it true?

Are there ghosts in the alley?

Are there angels on the roof?

Does the wind in the pines really whisper, “Fare thee well?”

Does a long crooked bough point

To the road outta hell?

Chorus

3.

Badger tell the Black Bird

Sittin’ in a tree

About a dime store dreamer

And a dark epiphany

Come the break of the dawn, there’ll be

One less sleepy soul

To stumble in the darkness,

Or to flounder in the coals

Badger hear the Black Bird

Singin’ in the pines

A song about a schemer

And a race against time.

In the still of the mornin’

You can hear the angels yell

Wakin’ up the dreamers

On the Road outta hell<br />

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Thanks to Sue