Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Feed of Man, artist - Billy Bragg. Date of issue: 19.04.2012
Song language: English
Feed of Man |
| If you |
| Beat up, butcher, and |
| You bleed a man: |
| If you bang up and badger and |
| Bloodlet a man; |
| And then I come along |
| On the feet of man |
| And half way laff and cry 'bout |
| The meat of man |
| And I do what I can to |
| Bale string and tie some ballad truths |
| Up cured out |
| For the feed of man |
| And |
| Folks try to tell me |
| That it’s on god’s orders |
| That you bleed your man; |
| It’s on god’s good word that you |
| Bleed your man; |
| On god’s plan print |
| That you dead a man; |
| Or you spit and curse and whip |
| Your man; |
| I say I’ll help you fix and |
| Squeeze yourself up a new kind of a god |
| Of some kind; |
| One that tells you |
| Fertilyze and multyplye; |
| One that |
| Tells you: |
| Outsow and outblow |
| Outplant and outgrow; |
| Outdo, and outrun, and outclimb, and out spread |
| Every other tree and bush |
| And brushy fruits and flower petalls; |
| Out fruit them all |
| For the feed of man; |
| Out stalk and out hunt and out think |
| For god’s own sweet sake, out think! |
| Out think! |
| Outthink the fruits |
| Outgrow these animal kind and shapes of man! |
| It you miss and go down |
| Your dust will turn up on that long hot job |
| Once more again |
| To help in the feeding and the seed of man |
| And not in the bleeding and the end of man |
| Words: woody guthrie (date unknown) — music: jeff tweedy (1998) |
| Jay bennett: b3 organ, leslie guitar |
| Billy bragg: resonator guitar |
| Ken coomer: drums |
| John stirratt: bass |
| Jeff tweedy: vocal, acoustic guitar, electric guitar |