The Old Black Hen - Songs: Ohia

Old Black Hen, is that you again?

Singing the Bad Luck Lullaby

Come right on in, it’s midnight again

Time for the Bad Luck Lullaby

You know the one

It’s the same one you sung

When you wrote down the Revelations

Now sing it over the cradle of the child who’s born next

Bad Luck Lullaby

Leave all the truth in so they know what comes next

With the Bad Luck Lullaby

Leave in the true love they never find

Show how we’re looking for it all of our lives

When I saw the banner hanging over my door

And heard the Bad Luck Lullaby

I already knew who the party was for

Bad Luck Lullaby

All of my pain found a partner in that room

And the devil’s tail swayed with the tune

Make that Black Record roll the tapes all night long

Bad Luck Lullaby

Make that Black Record and we’ll all sing along

To the Bad Luck Lullaby

Look down the long street

And see who’s that crying

Tell them that every day I lived

I was trying to sing the blues the way I find them