The Flat Baritone Lyrics

Form a ring and wind and twine
Round the ol?? grape vine
Heavy on the wire from the house
Salt the cow and kill the calf
Meet yer lonesome once and a half
Gentos on the east and ladies on the south
The solemn boy carries his silver damage
Sold but for, the number and the image
(Chorus)
His eyes have saddened making wine from the stems
Empty ears longing for the wood and the skins
Paper yellowed from the salt and the failure
(Verse 2)
When he sings he slurs
& uses the meat of his thigh
To hold the book he wrote when he was lame
So wrapped up in his flat baritone
No castrato could woo him in from the rain
For he never raised his voice when his britches
Was spillin?? over with that honey truck richness
(Verse 3)
Well the stylus hit the patches
As he spit on the splashes
& sought out the scratches in the vinyl
??Neath a needle topped with nickels
To keep the tunes a goin??
Cracklin??, croonin?? and crowin??
Multi-coloured, hard-boiled & hidden
In the corners, with the dogs rusty remnants
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