When the initial pressing of WTHDG finally sold out, we were contented to let the album slide into obscurity. But demand was strong so we dug up the old masters and are proud to announce the re-issuing of our debut album.
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lyrics
Bone Man
Back in Louisiana when the days was black as pitch
Lived a lone creoley granny was a lonely voodoo witch
And she would dance around them graveyards where no dancin’ partner tread
And so she summoned up the spirits of the rightful restin’ dead
Yes she drew a magic circle ‘round that gleamin’ marble tomb
And then she drew them gleamin’ bones out from their own eternal womb
And then she cast the evil spell that puts the soul back in the frame
And when the bone man come around he cried aloud in burnin’ pain, and she said,
“Ha, ha, ha, ha! I said the magic words!
Ha, ha, ha! And now you understand!
Ha, ha, ha! Don’t say another word!
Ha, ha, ha! Just take me by the hand, just take me by the hand,
And Dance Bone Man!”
That bone man tried to fight it but he couldn’t break her spell
So he bowed to her politely and he swung his partner well
Oh yes they danced around in circles ‘till the dawnin’ early light
Then she’d put him back to rest but she come back there every night, a-sayin’,
Chorus
One night them church folk caught her dancin’ with the risen dead
So they clapped the chains upon her, passin’ judgement on her head
She would rot inside that graveyard hangin’ from a steel cage
‘till the birds and beasts had pulled up all the meat up off her frame
‘n’ as her pearly bones collapsed and fell the gibbet danced about
swingin’ to and fro alone until her pieces scattered out
and ev’ry night a few would disappear into an opened tomb
and when he had ‘em all collected with him in his dusty gloom, Bone Man said,
“Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha! Shoulda listened to my words!
Ha ha ha! But now you understand!
Ha ha ha! Don’t say another word!
Ha ha ha! Now I got you by the hand, now I got you by the hand, and now you’re always gonna dance
With your Bone Man!
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