
Date of issue: 14.03.1991
Record label: Touch and Go
Song language: English
Henhough: The Greatest Story Ever Told |
Smoke rises from a fire that warms the small cabin there |
As the young girl inside lights her man’s big pipe |
And kisses him goodnight |
But he is still and stares even deeper into the red flames that burn in the |
night |
In Henhough |
Around the fires of the Crow tribe the elders used to say: |
«The Sun Man’s day ends only when her moon comes out to play |
Got to meet him down in Henhough, Henhough or die» |
In the valley of Doverton two orphan babies lay |
One called Wade Alaska, the other born of evil Jacob Blade |
Each boy was taken by a family and raised by seperate ways |
And though Jacab lived across the mountain Wade knew they’d meet again |
In Henhough (Henhough) |
At the age of twenty Wade took the virgin, had a forum made |
And built his wife a cabin in the pasture nestled by the bay |
While clearing his land for planting Wade returned home one day |
To find an open door, Hanna gone, and the haunting smell of Jacob Blade |
So Wade set out that very night |
His horse tredding through the river that lay like a castle moat at the foot |
Of Mount Elran |
Strapped to his saddle a shotgun that wore the moonlight like a velvet glove |
Wade looked right through the black mountain that lay before him |
To Henhough (Henhough) |
A thirteen mountain mile trail of tears glistened off the bay |
Wade broke a little and knelt down and prayed for a way |
The next day sun on the other side at last did shine |
And there below lay Henhough, Henhough open wide (Henhough) |
The townfolks scattered like a shotgun shell when in walked Wade |
The only two left standing was Hanna and Jacob Blade |
Wade seen Hanna with her painted eyes, took aim for Jacob’s head |
A shot rang out that day in Henhough and Wade lay dead |
He will thirst yet has no mother |
Born in the wine of faith |
Who will feed him bread and butter? |
He eats chocolate cake |
Why must man destroy his brother? |
Got to meet him down in Henhough, Henhough or die |
Around the fires of the Crow tribe the elders used to say: |
«The Sun Man’s day ends only when her moon comes out to play» |
In the eyes of Wade the reflection of the outlaw Jacob Blade |
Laid to rest that morning in the town that bore the name |
Henhough |
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