The Flogging Reel / The Ivy Leaf / Trim the Velvet - Mary Bergin

Flogging the horses Report in the office Camels walking free Drinking honey tea Flogging the horses Report in the office Camels walking free While they're drinking honey tea Let's encourage the freedom of speech Then kill it with a bullet down on it's knees Rampant remains, shattered in disdain Your work is gone, the trauma lives on Rampant remains, shattered in disdain Your work is done, the trauma lives on Let chickens escape their torturous fate Let the eagles fly in the wild Let knowledge be learnt from the chosen child (jesus) Wait for something wild You talk of the sane, so show is the way This world is ours to feed But then you open the door and Everyone hits the floor Why should these people bleed? No sign of the boots To free and to loot, all they can see We travelled so far, we travelled so far Boots on the loose, goose in a noose Why all this envy and hate? Shape me a tooth, to replace like a spoof Still it looks real all the same Still it looks real all the same Let apes roam free Let people be (let people be) What they are and are Nine to to five ain't the same in the wild Nine to to five ain't the same in the wild Nine to to five ain't the same in the wild Let apes roam free Let people be (let people be) What they are and are Nine to to five ain't the same in the wild Nine to to five ain't the same in the wild Nine to to five ain't the same in the wild Washed up crows and unwashed clothes The mile isn't done 'til you run through the hum Empty shoes drowned by those fools All together, bitter weather It's the same as ever, it's the same as ever, when is never? (Pecking, pecking) this week we weep Then back asleep we fall Into the same old shoe Into the same old shoes, you fall into The same old shoe You fall into the same old shoe

Well, I know I miss more than hit With a face that was launched to sink And I seldom feel the bright relief It's been the worst day since yesterday If there's one thing I have said It's that the dreams I once had now lay in bed As the four winds blow my wits through the door It's been the worst day since yesterday Falling down to you, sweet ground Where the flowers they bloom, well, it's there I'll be found Hurry back to me, my wild calling It's been the worst day since yesterday Though these wounds have seen no wars Except for the scars I have ignored And this endless crutch, well, it's never enough It's been the worst day since yesterday Hell says hello, well, it's time I should go To pastures green that I've yet to see Hurry back to me, my wild calling It's been the worst day since yesterday It's been the worst day since yesterday It's been the worst day since yesterday

Come gather 'round people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin' So, you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin' What the fuck! Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who that it's namin' For the loser now will be later to win For the times they are a-changin' Come senators, congressmen please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside and it is ragin' It'll soon shake your windows wnd rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin' Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don't criticize what you can't understand Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly agin' So get out of the way if you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin' Say the times they are a-changin' The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast The slow one now will later be fast As the present now will later be past The order is rapidly fadin' And the first one now will later be last For the times they are a-changin The other times they are a-changin' The other times they are a-changin' For times they are a-changin'

His eyes, they closed and his last breath spoke He had seen all to be seen A life once full, now an empty vase Wilt the blossoms on his early grave Walk away me boy, walk away me boy And by morning we'll be free Wipe that golden tear from your mother, dear And raise what's left of the flag for me Then the rosary beads, count them one, two, three Fell apart as they hit the floor In a garb of black, we must pay respect To the color we're born to mourn Walk away me boys, walk away me boys By morning, we'll be free Wipe that golden tear from your mother, dear Raise what's left of the flag for me In this place there grew an angry festered wound Filled with hatred and remorse Where I pick and scratch 'til the blood amassed To silent rage now that fills my lungs For there are many ways to kill a man, they say With bayonet, axe, or sword But, son, a bullet fired from a shapeless guise Just put the shell of a Thompson gun Walk away me boys, walk away me boys And by morning we'll be free Wipe that golden tear from your mother, dear Raise what's left of the flag for me From the east out to the western shore Where many men and many more will fall But no angel flies with me tonight Though freedom reigns on all And curse the name for which we slaved our days So every man chose Kingdom Come But sure as night turns day it's the passion play Oh, my God, what have they done With madman's rage, well, they dug our graves But the dead rise again, you fools Walk away me boys, walk away me boys And by morning we'll be free Wipe that golden tear from your mother, dear Raise what's left of the flag for me Walk away me boys, walk away me boys And by morning we'll be free Wipe that golden tear from your mother, dear And raise what's left of the flag for me