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Ballad of Basphemous Bill letra
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie
Whenever wherever or whatsoever the manner of death he die
Whether he die in the light o' day or under the peak-faced moon
In cabin or dance-hall camp or dive mucklucks or patent shoon.
On velvet tundra or virgin peak by glacier drift or draw
In muskeg hollow or canyon gloom by avalanche fang or claw
By battle murder or sudden wealth by pestilence hooch or lead
I swore on the Book I would follow and look till I found my tombless dead.
For Bill was a dainty kind of cuss and his mind was mighty sot
On a dinky patch with flowers and grass in a civilized boneyard lot
And where he died or how he died it didn't matter a damn
So long as he had a grave with frills and a tombstone epigram.
So I promised him and he paid the price in good cheechako coin
Which the same I blowed in that very night down in the Tenderloin
Then I painted a three-foot slab of pine here lies poor Bill MacKie
And I hung it up on my cabin wall and waited for Bill to die.
Years passed away and at last one day came a squaw with a story strange
Of a long-deserted line of traps way back of the Bighorn range
Of a little hut by the great divide and a white man stiff and still
Lying there by his lonesome self and I figured it must be Bill.
So I thought of the contract I'd made with him and I took down from the shelf
The swell black box with the silver plate he'd picked out for hisself
And I packed it full of grub and hooch and I slung it on the sleigh
Then I harnessed up my team of dogs and was off at dawn of day.
You know what it's like in the Yukon wild when it's sixty-nine below
When the ice-worms wriggle their purple heads through the crust of the pale blue snow
When the pine trees crack like little guns in the silence of the wood
And the icicles hang down like tusks under the parka hood.
When the stove-pipe smoke breaks sudden off and the sky is weirdly lit
And the careless feel of a bit of steel burns like a red-hot spit
When the mercury is a frozen ball and the frost-fiend stalks to kill
Well it was just like that that day when I set out to look for Bill.
Oh the awful hush that seemed to crush me down on every hand
As I blundered blind with a trail to find through that blank and bitter land
Half dazed half crazed in the winter wild with its grim heartbraking woes
And the ruthless strife for a grip on life that only the sourdough knows.
North by the compass North I pressed river and peak and plain
Passed like a dream I slept to lose and I waked to dream again
River and plain and mighty peak and who could stand unawed
As their summits blazed he could stand undazed
At the foot of the throne of God.
North aye North through a land accurst shunned by the scouring brutes
And all I heard was my own harsh word and the whine of the malamutes
Till at last I came to a cabin squat built in the side of a hill
And I burst in the door and there on the floor frozen to death lay Bill.
Ice white ice like a winding-sheet sheathing each smoke-grimed wall
Ice on the stove-pipe ice on the bed ice gleaming over all
Sparkling ice on the dead man's chest glittering ice in his hair
Ice on his fingers ice in his heart ice in his glassy stare.
Hard as a log and trussed like a frog with his arms and legs outspread
I gazed at the coffin I'd brought for him and I gazed at the gruesome dead
And at last I spoke Bill liked his joke but still goldarn his eyes
A man had ought to consider his mates in the way he goes and dies.
Have you ever stood in an Arctic hut in the shadow of the Pole
With a little coffin six by three and a grief you can't control
Have you ever sat by a frozen corpse that looks at you with a grin
And that seems to say you may try all day but you'll never jam me in.
I'm not a man of the quitting kind but I never felt so blue
As I sat there gazing at that stiff and studying what I'd do
Then I rose and I kicked off the husky dogs that were nosing round about
And I lit a roaring fire in the stove and I started to thaw Bill out.
Well I thawed and I thawed for thirteen days but it didn't seem no good
His arms and his legs stuck out like pegs as if they were made of wood
Till at last I said it ain't no use he's froze too hard to thaw
He's obstinate and he won't lie straight so I guess I got to saw.
So I sawed off poor Bill's arms and legs and I laid him snug and straight
In the little coffin he picked hisself with the dinky silver plate
And I came nigh near to shedding a tear as I nailed him safely down
Then I stowed him away in my Yukon sleigh and I started back to town.
So I buried him as the contract was in a narrow grave and deep
And there he's waiting the Great Clean-up when the the Judgment sluice-heads sweep
And I smoke my pipe and I meditate in the light of the Midnight Sun
And sometimes I wonder if they was the awful things I done.
And as I sit and the parson talks expounding of the Law
I often think of poor old Bill and how hard he was to saw...
Hank Snow - Letras
- (don't do It Darlin') That Heart Belongs To Me
- (I'd Be A) Legend In My Time
- A Daisy a Day
- A Good Gal Is Hard to Find
- A Letter to Santa Claus
- A Little Box Of Pine On The 729
- A Message from the Tradewinds
- A Petal From a Faded Rose
- A Scale To Measure Love
- Act 1, Act 2, Act 3
- Address Unknown
- Adios Amigo
- All I Can Hold To
- All Nite Cafe
- All The Time
- Alphabet Song
- Among My Souvenirs
- Anniversary
- Answer to Blue Velvet Band
- Answer to Galveston Rose
- Answer to Little Blossom
- Any Old Time
- At The First Fall Of Snow
- At The Rainbow's End
- Atlantic Coastal Line
- Auctioneer Song
- Ballad of Basphemous Bill
- Ballad of One Eyed Mike
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Beggar to a King
- Ben Dewberry's Final Run
- Between Fire and Water
- Beyond The Reef
- Big Wheels
- Bill Is Falling Due
- Birth Of The Blues
- Blind Boy's Dog
- Blind Boy's Prayer
- Blossoms In The Springtime
- Blue Canadian Rockies
- Blue Christmas
- Blue For Old Hawaii
- Blue Ranger
- Blue River Rose
- Blue Rose Of The Rio
- Blue Sea Blues
- Blue Side of Lonesome
- Blue Tango
- Blue Velvet Band
- Blue Yodel, No. 10
- Blue, Blue Day
- Bluebird
- Bluebird Island (feat. Anita Carter)
- Bluer Than Blue
- Bob
- Boogie Woogie Flying Cloud
- Born to Be Happy
- Born to Lose
- Brand on My Heart
- Break My Mind
- Breakfast With The Blues
- Broken Hearted
- Broken Wedding Ring
- Bummin' Around
- Bury Me Deep
- C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s
- Call of the Wild
- Calypso Sweetheart
- Can't Have You Blues
- Canadian Pacific
- Caribbean
- Casey Jones Was His Name
- Changing of the Tide
- Chant of the Wanderer
- Chattanooga Choo Choo
- Chattin' With a Chick In Chattanooga
- Christmas Cannonball
- Christmas Roses
- City of New Orleans
- Color Song
- Colorado Country Morning
- Come Live With Me
- Come The Morning
- Confused With the Blues
- Conscience I'm Guilty
- Convict and the Rose
- Cool Water
- Crack In The Box Car Door
- Crazy Engineer
- Crazy Little Train of Love
- Cremation of Sam McGee
- Cross The Brazos At Waco
- Cryin', Prayin', Waitin', Hopin'
- Crying Steel Guitar Waltz
- Crying Time
- Cuba Rhumba
- Cure For The Blues
- Daisy A Day
- Dangerous Dan McGrew
- Days Are Long I'm Weary
- Dear Lord Remember Me
- Don't Make Me Go to Bed and I'll Be Good
- Don't Rock The Boat
- Don't Sing Aloha When I Go
- Down the Old Road to Home
- Down The Trail Of Achin' Hearts
- Down Where the Dark Waters Flow
- Drunkard's Child
- Drunkard's Son
- El Paso
- El Rancho Grande
- End of the World
- Engineer's Child
- Everybody Does It In Hawa
- Everytime I Love Her
- Face on the Barroom Floor
- Farther Along
- Father Time and Mother Love
- Fireball Mail
- Flying South
- Follow Me
- Following the Sun All Day
- Folsom Prison Blues
- For Sale
- For The Good Times
- Forever and One Day
- Frankie and Johnny
- Fraulein
- From a Jack to a King
- Frosty The Snowman
- Gal Who Invented Kissin'
- Galway Bay
- Gambling Polka Dot Blues
- Geisha Girl
- Gentle On My Mind
- Ghost Trains
- Gloryland March
- Go With My Heart
- God Is My Santa Claus
- Gold Rush Is Over
- Golden River
- Golden Rocket
- Gonna Find Me a Bluebird
- Good Gal Is Hard To Find
- Goodnight Little Buckaroo
- Green Green Green
- Groundhog Rootin' in My Backyard
- Gypsy Feet
- Handcuffed to Love
- Hawaiian Cowboy
- He Dropped the World in My Hands
- He'll Understand and Say Well Done
- Heartbreak Trail
- Heartsick And Lonely
- Hello Love
- Highest Bidder
- His Hands
- His Message Home
- Hobo Bill's Last Ride
- Hobo's Meditation
- Home Call
- Honey
- Honeymoon on a Rocket Ship
- How Big Is God
- How She Could Yodel
- How To Play The Guitar
- Hula Love
- Hula Rock
- I Ain't Been Anywhere
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- I Can't Control My Heart
- I Care No More
- I Cried But My Tears Were Too Late
- I Don't Hurt Anymore
- I Dreamed of An Old Love Affair
- I Have You and That's Enough for Me
- I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
- I Just Want You To Know
- I Keep Dreaming Of You All The Time
- I Knew That We'd Meet Again
- I Love You Because
- I Love You, Nellie
- I Never Will Marry
- I Really Don't Want to Know
- I Saw a Man
- I See Jesus
- I Threw Away The Rose
- I Traded My Saddle for a Rifle
- I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
- I Went To Your Wedding
- I Wish It Was Mine
- I Wish My Heart Could Talk
- I Wished Upon My Little Golden Horseshoe
- I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
- I'd Be a Legend in My Time
- I'll Go on Alone
- I'm Glad I'm On The Inside Looking Out
- I'm Gonna Bid My Blues Goodbye
- I'm in Love With Jesus
- I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
- I'm Movin'
- I'm Movin' In
- I'm Movin' On
- I'm Not at All Sorry for You
- I'm Sending You Red Roses
- I'm Sorry We Met
- I'm Still Movin' On
- I've Been Everywhere
- I've Done At Least One Thing (that Was Good)
- If I Could Just Remember What I Can't Forget
- If I Ever Get Back To Georgia
- If It's Wrong to Love You
- In An Old Dutch Garden By An Old Dutch Mill
- In The Jailhouse Now
- In The Misty Moonlight
- Indian Love Call
- Invisible Hands
- It Just Happened That Way
- It Takes Too Long
- It's Over Over Nothin'
- Jamaica Farewell
- January
- Jesus Wept
- Jimmie the Kid
- Journey My Baby Back Home
- Just a Faded Petal from a Beautiful Bouquet
- Just Across the Bridge of Gold
- Just Keep a Movin'
- Keep Your Promise Willie Thomas
- Lady's Man
- Last Mile of the Way
- Last Ride
- Last Thing on My Mind
- Lazybones
- Let Me Go Lover
- Let's Pretend
- Letter Edged in Black
- Like a Bird
- Lili Marlene
- Linda Lou
- Little Britches
- Little Buddy
- Little Children
- Little Joe
- Little Stranger (In A Manger)
- Lonesome 7-7203
- Lonesome Whistle
- Loose Talk
- Lord's Way of Saying Goodnight
- Love Is So Elusive
- Love's Game of Let's Pretend
- Mama Tried
- Mansion on the Hill
- Maria Elena
- Marriage and Divorce
- Marriage Vow
- Married By the Bible Divorced By the Law
- Mary Ann Regrets
- Me and Bobby McGee
- Melba From Melbourne
- Memories Are Made of This
- Message From The Tradewinds
- Miami Snow
- Miller's Cave
- Million and One
- Mississippi River Blues
- Moanin'
- Moonlight and Skies
- Mother I Thank You for the Bible You Gave
- Mother the Queen of My Heart
- Music Makin' Mama from Memphis
- My Adobe Hacienda
- My Arabian Baby
- My Arms Are a House
- My Blue Eyed Jane
- My Dreams Tell It Like It Was
- My Filipino Rose
- My Friends
- My Good Gal's Gone
- My Happiness
- My Little Golden Horseshoe
- My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii
- My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans
- My Mother
- My Nova Scotia Home
- My Rough and Rowdy Ways
- My Sweet Texas Bluebonnet Queen
- My Texas Blue Bonnet Queen
- Mysterious Lady from St Martinique
- Name Of The Game Was Love
- Never No Mo' Blues
- Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)
- Next Voice You Hear
- Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)
- No Golden Tomorrow Ahead
- No Letter Today
- No Longer A Prisoner
- No One Will Ever Know
- Nobody Knows But Me
- Nobody's Child
- North to Chicago
- Now And Then There's a Fool Such As I
- Now Is the Hour
- Nuevo Laredo
- Oahu Rose
- Oh Lonesome Me
- Old Doc Brown
- Old Faithful (horse's Prayer)
- Old Rover
- Old Shep
- On That Old Hawaiian Shore With You
- On The Beach At Waikiki
- On the Rhythm Range
- One Minute Past Eternity
- One More Ride
- One Rose That's Left in My Heart
- Owl And I
- Pair of Broken Hearts
- Pan American
- Panamama
- Paper Roses
- Patanio (The Pride of the Plains)
- Paving the Highway With Tears
- Peach Picking Time Down in Georgia
- Pearly Shells
- Petal From A Faded Rose
- Prisoned Cowboy
- Promised to John
- Put My Little Shoes Away
- Put Your Arms Around Me
- Queen of Draw Poker Club
- Reindeer Boogie
- Return to Me
- Rhumba Boogie
- Ribbon of Darkness
- Rich Man Am I
- Rockin' Rollin' Ocean [With Wave Effect]
- Rockin' Rollin' Ocean [Without Wave Effect]
- Rocking Alone In An Old Rockin' Chair
- Roll Along Kentucky Moon
- Rome Wasn't Built In a Day
- Rose of Old Monterey
- Rose Of The Rio
- Roses In The Snow
- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
- Runt
- Scale to Measure Love
- Seasons
- Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On
- Senorita Rosalita
- She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye
- She Was Happy Till She Met You
- She Wears My Ring
- She's a Rose from the Garden of Prayer
- Shopworn
- Silent Night
- Silver Rails
- Sing Me a Song of the Islands
- Singing The Blues
- Sittin' in an All Nite Cafe
- Six String Tennessee Flat Top
- Snowbird
- So Good to Be Back With You
- Soldier's Last Letter
- Someone Mentioned Your Name
- Somewhere Along Life's Highway
- Somewhere My Love
- Southbound
- Southern Cannonball
- Spanish Fireball
- Spell of the Yukon
- Springtime In The Rockies
- Squid Jiggin' Ground
- Star Spangled Waltz
- Stolen Moments
- Streamlined Cannonball
- Sunny Side of the Mountain
- Sweet Dreams
- Sweet Dreams Of You
- Tangled Mind
- TB Blues
- Teardrops in My Heart
- Texas Silver Zephyr
- That Heart Belongs to Me
- That Pioneer Mother Of Mine
- The Anniversary of My Broken Heart
- The Hobo's Last Ride
- The Night I Stole Old Sammy Morgan's Gin
- The Reindeer Boogie
- The Texas Cowboy
- There's a Picture on Pinto's Bridle
- Travelin' Blues
- Treasure Untold
- Trouble In Mind
- Trouble Trouble Trouble
- Trying To Get My Baby Off My Mind
- Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
- Tumbling Tumbleweeds
- Unfaithful
- Unwanted Sign Upon Your Heart
- Vaya Con Dios
- Wasted Love
- Wayward Wind
- Wedding Bells
- What do I Know Today
- What Is Father
- When Jimmie Rodgers Said Goodbye
- When Mexican Joe Met Jole Blon
- When The Western Sun Is Sinking And The Moon Creeps Thru The Sky
- Where The Trade Winds Blow
- Why Did You Give Me Your Love
- Wreck of the Old 97
- Yellow Roses
- Yodeling Cowboy
- You And My Old Guitar
- You Are My Sunshine
- You Pass Me By
- You're as Welcome as the Flowers in May
- You're Easy To Love
- You're The Reason
- Your Little Band Of Gold
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