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.
Includes unlimited streaming of Where The Heather Don't Grow
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lyrics
No Diamond Ring
He held his baby as she creid
He beheld her baby as she died
He knew from wrong and he knew from right
And that baby’s skin was a shade too white (just a shade too white)
He knew no court would see him through
But he knew just what he had to do
Crept from the quarters by the full moon light (by the full moon light)
With a bailin’ hook and a cookin’ knife (steel blade cookin’ knife)
The good book said he shouldn’t do
But the woman in the swamp said a thing or two
What spirit was a-guidin’ him
To the master’s house by the moonlight dim
CAUSE MOSES COULDN'T BUY NO DIAMOND RING
The house slaves they just let him by (let him walk on by)
When they saw that hook and the look in his eye (cold dead look in his eye)
Didn’t need no light in the house you know
Cause Moses was aflame with a strangely glow
No door nor floorboard made a creak
As he stood o’er massah fast asleep
CAUSE MOSES COULDN'T BUY NO DIAMOND RING
Stood there for an hour or more…
The wicked man resting safe and sure…
Moses couldn’t run with a foot cut off
And any dozen white folks’d string him aloft
Livin' or dyin’ it was all the same…(LIVIN’ OR DYING’ IT WAS ALL THE SAME!)
Moses raised that hook to his baby’s name
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