Black of Heart

(Crocker/Baillie)

Far out to sea no man is free

Unless he knows that he's a part of God's grand scheme

And if he should drown when his good ship goes down

Then you know he's lived a life pure of heart

For no man is wise who's living a lie

Who sails for himself & no one else

Who, when he comes ashore, thinks of nothing more

Than spending his pay

Black of heart

Give the man scorn, for John Barleycorn

is all that he lives & never does he give

To the life he's made & the children he's raised

To promises unkept to the woman in his bed

For any man will fail who reeps beer & ale

From the barley grown and wheat he's sown

Who comes home each night drunk to beat the wife

Sleep off your life

Black of heart

Come out with me. Together we'll be free.

There's something we need out among the trees

And when we're alone away from your home

The stars fill your eyes and I'll tell you lies

I'll lay you on the ground. I'll promise you a world

And there you'll give the reason you live

And when I've got your soul I'll leave you in a hole

And as I am you'll be

Black of heart

instrumental passage

The time has come dear heart of wood

To recall your place in history

your land so old, green & gold

Befallen of a tragedy

For no man is good who masters the wood

and fails to replace the lives he takes

living in a home of old dead tree bones

Black of heart

solo to ending

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