
Date of issue: 26.05.2016
Record label: Tony Joe White, Yep Roc
Song language: English
Conjure Child |
She was born early a brill child |
Folks didn’t think she’d make nine |
She made a year started going blind but the conjure said just in time |
Just in time |
She was headed for an early grave took her to her grandma’s place |
Nothing left for them to try left her there to live or die |
Her Grandma lived back in the swamp |
Couldn’t get to it with a boat |
The savage shack up on stilts strong little house her grandpa built |
She got stronger found her way helped her grandma around the place |
Her eyes had turned the palest green threw her voice and make her scream |
Once a month she’d take the boat go through the swamp to a little dirty road |
She’d walk into town for their supplies keep her hat down low on her eyes |
She felt uneasy on the town men would look her up and down |
She was coming down no doubt about it |
She never had a man never thought about it |
Never had a man |
Two men rolled out of town in an old pickup just about sundown |
They were drinking a lot of shine bad intentions on their mind |
She came walking down the road moon was up and hanging low |
She was humming a little song but she knew something terrible had gone wrong |
A man was laying in her boat |
Cottonmouth snakes took to his throat |
A panther came from the trees took the other one at the knees |
She drug em both back into the boat |
Paddled back into the swamp |
Halfway back to the shack |
She dropped them off for a gator snack |
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