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Well loved for the home that was in it

And the crooked fuchsia’d walls

But with the sow killed for a belly full

How could this a home we call?

With heavy hearts bundled in wool

Was it worth fightin' for?

When it come from the sheep that graze the land

That belongs to some distant lord

Until the boney bailiff

The shrew-eyed boney bailiff

The silk-pursed boney bailiff

Came a-knockin' at the door

At the time the geese were flyin'

Honk over the hoary frost

Till road and church and cable knit

All were double-crossed

And neighbor gathered with neighbor

'round rubble a house no more

With the money spent they raised the rent

Said «you'll always have the poor»

Until the boney bailiff

The hackneyed boney bailiff

The horsy boney bailiff

Came a-knockin' at the door

Well met at the well of loneliness

Where the dark trees used to grow

Before our time but within the time

Of the stories that we all know

Well fortified with whiskey

And a barrel for one last wake

Tonight we’ll drink to dear darlin' death

Which never made a mistake

And wait for the boney bailiff

The knock-kneed boney bailiff

The dumbfounded boney bailiff

To come a-knockin' at the door

Did not wait for the benediction

Nor wait for the battering ram

We took what iron was in it

To reflect the iron in man

Sharpened for one last harvest

Then it’s off to a distant shore

Forgive me father for I have sinned

Now I’ll go and sin no more

But curse the boney bailiff

The cantankerous boney bailiff

The cadaverous boney bailiff

Who came a-knockin' at the door

But curse the boney bailiff

The pleadin' boney bailiff

The beggin' boney bailiff

Who came a-knockin' at the door

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