Diamondback

[00:26.25] Something broke through the brindled soil
[00:30.26] Rattling the grass
[00:33.22] Spittin' like coal
[00:36.39] My spade came down across his spine
[00:40.33] a terrible fear flew across his eyes
[00:45.35] I said we both have lives that we are owed
[00:50.34] You can own an acre, but not what it grows
[00:55.48] I gave no heed when I got in,
[01:00.43] Had bread and tea and then the beast got skinned
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[01:32.32] Diamond skin on a hickory post
[01:36.34] Blowin' like a curse in the knee high rows
[01:42.30] I never in my life had seen
[01:46.38] the kind of rain we got that spring
[01:52.47] A flood washed up every rainbow snake
[01:56.42] And I was soon begging them to let me stay
[02:02.43] They gave no heed when I got in,
[02:06.42] they said You can hunt hares in our garden.
[02:12.41] You can hunt hares in our garden.
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[02:43.59] Who will love a loveless thing
[02:47.61] Betrayed by God, exiled by beast
[02:53.63] I can hear you in the floorboards deep in the night
[02:57.67] You could have freed me and redeemed your life
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