Lee Mellor - Gravedigger Blues lyrics

[Verse 1: Lee Mellor] In the cold morning pale The graveyard exhales The crows through the frozen oaks caw Its breath curls and wreathes The grey tombstone teeth Uneven in d**h's mossy jaw Sweat cakes my shirt As the spade breaks the dirt The ground's beginning to thaw But I'll dig in these hills 'Till her belly is filled And my hands are bleeding and raw [Chorus] I know every tombstone Each name in the mouldering line I know every tombstone Better than I know this old heart of mine [Verse 2: Lee Mellor] Stone angels perch Over old Mabel Church Their faces sullen and dour And Mary McGraw Died at age twenty-four Her grave is barren of flowers So every lunch I steal her a bunch And I sit with her for half an hour In some other life Mary, you'll be my wife And I'll build you a garden that towers [Chorus] [Verse 3: Lee Mellor] The dread sirens cry Red flashes streak by I sense that another poor soul Has silently slipped These gates lick their lips I tell myself it's the cold That these angels and things Are just babies with wings If horses could sculpt they'd be foals And there'll be no rebirth There's only the earth So you might as well keep digging holes There'll be no rebirth There's only the earth So you might as well dig a nice hole