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Hangman's Blues

from Inside the Camp Trailer by Ariel Steele

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I'll be your quiet little prisoner in this game that you play
Disgrace my family while you take me off in chains
I'll even let you think that you're digging me my grave
But I'm just waiting for that train that's gonna take me far away

I'm going to ride through the hills and to the valleys below
I'm going to ride across the salt lakes and sleep beneath the snow
I'm going to find me a better life than you've given me here
While we're at it I'll order pork and beans for my last meal

You've been judge and jury and executioner with my crimes
But I can see from where I'm standing yours are much worse than mine
You don't know your children, your wife or your whores
So tell me who's going to get it worse with the coming of the lord

There ain't no place in heaven for rich folk like you sir
You may not run plantations but you still drive slaves into the dirt
Give them a stack of hay to lay their heads and a place to hide their shoes
But you cut out their own tongue so they cannot sing the blues

You cannot lift a spade and you cannot turn the wheel
So you ride down with your horsewhip while the tortured plow the field
But I can see you get a little scared when you're standing on the ground
So when we kick you from your steed you know you will not run us down

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from Inside the Camp Trailer, released December 14, 2013

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All songs written by Ariel Steele and accompanied by Olyn on banjo.

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