Cecil

from Jenna by Jesse & the Revelator

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Black damp killed my old man
It snuffed out his life and his lamp
The word ran like water through the coal camp
It was black damp

I'd take some black lung myself
Since the government pays for poor health
And the hiring guy at Wal-Mart's overrun
Gimme black lung

Black tar killed my old woman
She rotted the veins in her arms
She blew out her pupils and totaled her car
High on black tar

Now the black market's taken my daughter
A lamb being led to the slaughter
A young man just gave me a letter she signed
I guess I'll go take back what's mine

It's like a black cloud just hangs over us
It's what sealed all the gangways shut
It's what gets your kid lost and her mother strung out
That old black cloud

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from Jenna, released March 27, 2017

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