DEATH’S HEAD

DEATH’S HEAD

Seen a con man dangle from a hangman’s hitch
And an altar boy strangled at a fever pitch
Saw a man named Jones with a drowned man’s bloat
Found his lover’s bones ‘neath a buzzard’s throat

Seen a fistful of dollars cost a man his head
And a wealthy scholar stab his wife in their bed
Saw a star-crossed bride lose the blush in her cheek
When her groom had died at the mouth of a creek

CHORUS
They claim it started once I rolled in
They claim it started once I rolled in…

Seen a zealot preacher murder in God’s name
And a lovelorn teacher smother his old flame
Saw a teenage mother throw her child down a well
Just before her brother shot them both to Hell

Seen the dried up lees of a mail order bride
With her pet Maltese poisoned at her side
Saw a schoolgirl bludgeoned with a Louisville bat
I heard her kissing cousin could be traced to that

CHORUS

BRIDGE
What they’ve all failed to see
There lies a common thread
Stranger in blood is me
Rearing my death’s head…

CHORUS