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Baker's Murder
03:04
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They found the baker's body Monday morning
Blood was drying on the kitchen floor
The Loaves that he was baking in the oven overnight were black
Smoke filled the room and out the door
There was not a soul in sight to see but
Thirteen crows, sitting in the old dead tree
His eyes were gone, empty in their sockets
His hands were picked clean down to the bone
A rancid smell was mixing with the scent of burning bread
His body stiff and greyer than a stone
No one could have seen this awful crime but
Thirteen crows, sitting on a telephone line
A quaint little village, where nothing ever stirs
Everyone knows everybody's name
The baker was a peaceful man who never did no harm
With friends like these, who could be to blame?
The people flocked to the village tavern
The gossip and rumours start to fly
Perhaps he owed someone a lot of money
Perhaps the killer ran off with his wife
Little do they know that waiting just outside that
Thirteen bakers murder shows
Thirteen groups of thirteen crows
A hundred and sixty-nine crows with hungry eyes.
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Sixteen Tons
02:48
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Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
Muscle and blood, skin and bone
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong
CHORUS:
You move sixteen tons, and whatta ya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cos I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine
I picked up a shovel and walked to the mine
I moved sixteen tons of number nine coal
and the straw boss said "Well, bless my soul!"
CHORUS
I was born one morning in the drizzling rain
A fightin' and a trouble are my middle names
I was raised in a shack by an old mama lion
Ain't no strong toed woman make me walk the line
If you see me comin' better step aside
A lotta men didn't and a lotta men died
Right fist of iron, the other's steel
If the right don't getcha then the left one will
CHORUS
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