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Big Black Mariah

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Big Black Mariah

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Well cutting through the cane break, rattling the sill

Thunder that the rain makes when the shadow tops the hill

Big light on the back street, hill to ever more

Packing down the ladder with the hammer to the floor

Here come the Big Black Mariah, here come the Big Black Mariah

Here come the Big Black Mariah, I seen the big black Ford

Well he's all boxed up on a red belle dame

Hunted Black Johnny with a blind man's cane

A yellow bullet with a rag out in the wind

An old blind tiger, got an old bell Jim

Here come the Big Black Mariah, here come the Big Black Mariah

Here come the Big Black Mariah, here come the big black Ford

Sent to the skies on a Benny Jag Blue

Off to bed without his supper like a Linda brides do

He got to do the story with the old widow Jones

Got a wooden coat, this boy is never coming home

Here come the Big Black Mariah, here come the Big Black Mariah

Here come the Big Black Mariah, I seen that big black Ford

Cut through the canebrake, oh yeah

Well he's all boxed up on a red belle dame

Flat Blue Johnny with a blind man's cane

A hundred yellow bullets shook a rag out in the wind

An old blind tiger, on a bell you win

Here come the Big Black Mariah, here come the Big Black Mariah

Here come the Big Black Mariah, here come the big black Ford

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