The cypress trees bared witness In the crimson light To the first murder DEATH BLUES Legba taught three chords To a young man who lost his wife It went something like DEATH BLUES In Golgotha you could hear 'em scream DEATH BLUES In the fields they hollered in pain DEATH BLUES In prison they whistle the same old tune DEATH BLUES Abraham sang it, and David too Ruth and Hannah taught the little ones that first tune The day will come where St-John's visions will come true The trumpets will sound And what will we hear Noah's still waiting for another flood And the king's hands are still sticky with all that blood His kingdom is as rotten as the sea is blue And wherever you'll turn you'll see death too