《John Wilkes Booth》歌词

歌曲： John Wilkes Booth

所属专辑：Native American

歌手： Tony Rice

时长： 03:52

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John Wilkes Booth - Tony Rice[00:00:00]

John Wilkes Booth was a southern man[00:00:10]

Born of an actor in Maryland[00:00:13]

Bound for fortune on a gas-lit stage[00:00:16]

Bound to die at a tender age[00:00:20]

Washington to Baltimore[00:00:26]

He played the bills and he slept with whores[00:00:29]

And he burned inside with a hatred deep[00:00:32]

For the man who caused the south to weep[00:00:36]

Young Abe Lincoln wasn't young no more[00:00:40]

Tired old man when he won the war[00:00:44]

And he dreamed at night of his death by the hands[00:00:47]

Of the bitter world and a faceless man[00:00:50]

And he saw his body in a ghastly dream[00:00:53]

Draped in black while his widow screamed[00:00:56]

Two silver dollars on his eyelids lay[00:01:00]

Abraham Lincoln has died today[00:01:03]

And they said there were five and they said there were ten[00:01:08]

Some say there was never more than just one man[00:01:11]

Who would smile to see Mr Lincoln dead[00:01:15]

In the name of God and Dixie in the name of God and Dixie Land[00:01:19]

John Wilkes Booth and his band of men[00:01:43]

They'd failed before but would try again[00:01:47]

When Good Friday dawned with a fickle sun[00:01:50]

Then Booth declared the day had come[00:01:54]

And the word was passed and the guns were brought[00:01:59]

Down to Mary Sarrat's boarding house[00:02:03]

Sealed in a note Booth named just four[00:02:06]

But the gallows would sway with many more[00:02:10]

And they said there were five and they said there were ten[00:02:12]

Some say there was never more than just one man[00:02:15]

Who would smile to see Mr Lincoln dead[00:02:19]

In the name of God and Dixie in the name of God and Dixie Land[00:02:23]

John Wilkes Booth went to his grave[00:02:47]

With a bullet in his neck and a broken leg[00:02:50]

A patriot and his fantasy[00:02:54]

Of redemption grace and bravery[00:02:57]

And those who were hanged and those who spent[00:03:01]

Their lives behind a jailer's fence[00:03:05]

Only Booth could have proved them free[00:03:08]

Of the taint of the conspiracy[00:03:11]

For they said there were five and they said there were ten[00:03:14]

Some said there was never more than just one man[00:03:17]

Who would smile to see Mr Lincoln dead[00:03:21]

In the name of God and Dixie in the name of God and Dixie Land[00:03:24]

In the name of God and Dixie in the name of God and Dixie Land[00:03:33]