Old Blood - Mayday

What’s that I hear out in my garden

Run run sonny boy and get my gun

I think I see the neighbor boy Bud Melvin

Digging in your mama’s flowerpot

Whats that he’s doing to the rhubarb

I swear I’ve seen him violate the leaves

Belonging to the tree that I once planted

In the honor of the day my daddy fell

«O papa please, I know your troubles

They been hard and they been long

Fighting all these years with the neighbor’s kin

(but) This boy before us don’t deserve the suffering»

Sonny that’s a woman’s voice you’ve taken

Your mercy-cryin-diplomatic tongue

This boy I see before us in the garden

Is guilty being born a son Melvin

I’ll be damned before I let our family’s shame go unavenged

I’ll be damned before I recognize the day

When the Melvin kids inherit that old saw mill

That stole my daddy’s lovely guitar hands