Big Jim Hawkins

Big Jim Hawkins rolled up off the floor
Railroad mud and sailor blood ripped tinder from the door
Paul came knocking, sixth one down the line
Five men ran for cover and that meat red moon did shine
Oh, oh...

Lips split open, shot glass filled the pines
Bar stools flew like witches through the Minnesota sky
Vultures circled, lightning hit the vane
Blackbirds tore the roof off and the world went up in flames

Jim took autumn, Paul slit winter's lambs
Spring blew smoke and summer choked
In both men's giant hands
Drunks got drunker, barkeeps buried kin
Fifteen years, ten thousand beers, onе hundred fifths of...
(oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...)

Paul lay crying, ribs wrapped 'round his ax
A bluebird hеard his dying words and crept up through the ash
Babe came rushing, Big Jim caught the horn
Two men lay split open and a red, red river roared!

Trains derailed and loggers broke their backs
Rivers turned to oceans and the Northern Lights went black
Towns just vanished, sunk by spit and sweat
The north lay raped by five Great Lakes called H.O.M.E.S!
Oh, ohh...