... BLIND FIDDLER I lost my eyes in the blacksmith's shop in the year of 56 While dusting out a T planch which was out of fix It bounded from my tongs and there concealed my doom I am a blind fiddler and far from my home I've been to San Francisco, I've been ...
... Take care as you saunter along the street How you tread on the dust beneath your feet; You may crush a cherub in embryo sweet For each atom may hold a germ complete, Which, by some mystical process slow And selective power, to a monkey grow, And from that ...
... just rob you and take what you have But a false-hearted lover will lead you to the grave The grave will decay you and turn you to dust Not one boy in a thousand a poor girl can trust He'll hug you and kiss you and tell you more lies Than cross-ties on a ...
... not cling to a rolling stone My body? oh, if I could choose I would to ashes it reduce And let the merry breezes blow My dust to where some flowers grow Perhaps some fading flower then Would soon rise up and grow green again This is my last and final will ...
... going home to stay a while Before I go I'll plant a smile These banking thieves I will not trust But with me take my little dust My mother she has gone before I'll meet her there at glories door So I pitched my tent on this campground And I give old Satan ...
... they do not grow My hair was scorched by swirling flame My eyes grew dim, my eyes grew blind Death came and turned my bones to dust And they were scattered on the ground I need no fruit, I need no rice I need no sweets, nor even bread I ask for nothing ...
... morning O Arthur, my lad, if you would but list Five guineas in gold I would clap in your fist Besides five shilling to kick up the dust And drink the king's health in the morning Na faith, says Arthur, I ken it mysel' I winna gae wi you to rin at your ...
... Shall your wind rise from the bones and dust, And shall it reach the place where the flowers bloom, Though my eyes are bathed in mourning tears, Please offer us your good wishes, and may our lives be fulfilled. ...