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Black Diamond Express (John Fahey RIP​/​Old 97)

from Lion's Paw Blues & Other Songs by Menchaca

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I’m sitting in the Rain Forest Café
In the rainforest watching a real time loop
I shout I’m buying to some maid in Hawaiian
In a grass Versace skirt and a hula hoop
She throws me a look and I take my chances
And we walk under the canopy where the jaguars luxuriate in the branches
 
We shipwrecked off the coast
And the African broke his shackles in the catastrophe
The tribe that found us tied and bound until we exposed
Through acts of healing our divinity
They turned us out in the cold
And we set out barefoot to discover the Seven Cities of Gold
 
John Fahey may he rest
John Fahey may he rest
John Fahey may he rest…in peace
 
O Shenendo….
Mary Bolan’s leaving town before a mob sees to it
I love your daughter but I’ve been living underground nursing on the witch nipples of my roots
I’ve been sleeping in the field
And when I sleepwalk and my impression in the grass is un-concealed
 
There’ll be wi-fi in the valley
And the state fair this year is in the cloud
There’s tractor gladiators, ring toss and spirit saviors
And corporeal participation is not allowed
A revival tent float on the sea
The angel of the apocalypse has been detained in security
 
 
John Fahey may he rest
John Fahey may he rest
John Fahey may he rest…in peace


I woke up standing in a queue
I was trying to screw a rose in my lapel
The whistle summoned and the train that was coming
Was the Black Diamond Express to Hell
The flat cars piled up with clocks
I took a seat and I retrieved my ticket from my pocket

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from Lion's Paw Blues & Other Songs, released May 4, 2015
Thanks to D for chorus vocals

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Menchaca is a Pittsburgh-based artist, composer and writer.

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