A Very Grave Business - Gorerotted

A lurking street urchin by the day

Whose conning ways offer a lowly wage

So when night falls to the church I turn, to see what treasures I can earn

I take my shovel and I take my sack, to see what I can bring me back

I rob gold & silver & amber & pearls from your dear beloveds that have left

this world

I see your face — and then it’s gone without trace

I feel I’m losing my sight — haunting life day and night

Raven red hair — I have to stop here and stare

Your piercing eyes black and cold — the devil’s broken the mould

My lamplight casts upon the grave, of magaret erskine

A disease ridden dame

Friday night she died and was buried in the morn

Enriched in jewels, wrapped in fine coths

From the earth she comes again

Punishing the sins of all men

Taking life like taking breath

A tortured soul lives on in death

I see your face — and then it’s gone without trace

I feel I’m losing my sight — haunting life day and night

Raven red hair — I have to stop here and stare

Your piercing eyes black and cold — the devil’s broken the mould

I want that ring I must not linger

I can get it off the dead wenchs finger

I need to take it to the nearest inn

And swap it for a pint of gin

A very grave business, no man should witness

She walked in the bar all pale and white, it gave me such a massive fright

She looked all dead and did quite stink it almost made me drop my drink

Excuse me sir but that’s my ring, and now my hand it don’t half sting

So the moral now the story’s read, don’t steal bling from off the dead