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Thread #42215   Message #612147
Posted By: Clinton Hammond
17-Dec-01 - 11:28 PM
Thread Name: Chords Req: Pills of White Mercury (Old Blind Dogs
Subject: Lyr Add: PILLS OF WHITE MERCURY (Old Blind Dogs)
I can get ya lyrics mate... that help?

As I was a walking by the banks o' the Ugie,
Come my dear friends and this story I'll relate:
I spied a dear comrade all dressed in white flannel,
Dressed in white flannel and cruel was his fate.

The mercury was beating. The limestone was reeking.
His tongue all inflamed/in flames hung over his chin.
A hole in his bosom, his teeth were a-closin'.
Bad luck to the girl that had gi'ed him the ______.

CHORUS: And had she but told me, oh, when she dishonored me,
Had she but told me of it in time,
I might have been cured by those pills of white mercury.
Now I am a young man cut down in my prime.

My parents they warned me and oftimes they chided:
With those young flash girls do not sport and play.
I never listened, no word ever heeded.
I just carried on in my own wicked way. CHORUS

It's down on the corner two flash girls were talking.
One to the other did whisper and say:
There goes that young man who once was so jolly,
But now for his sins his own body must pay. CHORUS

Oh doctor, dear doctor, before your departure,
Take all these bottles of mercury away,
And send for the minister to say a prayer over me,
So they can lay my poor body in the clay. CHORUS

Now get you six fellows to carry my coffin,
Six pretty fair maids to bear up my pall.
Give each of them there a bunch of red roses,
So when they pass by me they'll not know the smell. CHORUS

;-)