The Good Son Lyrics

The Good Son lyrics

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 The Good Son



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 One more man gone



 One more man gone



 One more man is gone 



 



 The good son walks into the field



 He is a tiller, he has a tiller's hands



 But down in his heart now



 He lays down his queer plans



 Against his brother and against his family



 Yet he worships his brother



 And he worships his mother



 But it's his father, he says, is an unfair man



 The good son



 The good son



 The good son 



 



 The good son has sat and often wept



 Beneath a malign star by which he's kept



 And the night-time in which he's wrapped



 Speaks of good and speaks of evil



 And he calls to his mother



 And he calls to his father



 But they are deaf in the shadows



 Of his brother's truancy



 The good son



 The good son



 The good son



 The good son 



 



 And he curses his mother



 And he curses his father



 And he curses his virtue like an unclean thing



 The good son



 The good son



 The good son 



 



 One more man gone



 One more man gone



 One more man



 One more man gone



 One more man gone



 One more man



 One more man gone



 One more man gone



 One more man



 (Repeat)