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Marshal Ney (Black Flag Blues)

from A Mutable Feast or: The Ghost of a Flea by John Donne

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that won't happen to me
i'm not sure that it can
fell asleep in a dream
now i'm going to bed

i woke up in the crowd
where they shot marshal ney
i was hung as a spy
i had something to say

bitter pageant of life
lost upon the midway
meet the dead in repose
on the champs-élysées

i’m diving with a rose
down through your buttonhole
i was hung as a thief
was it something i stole

see the triumph of death
hanging in a gift store
oh but it's alright ma
cuz it's only my war

that won't happen to me
i'm quite sure that it did
oh but not once or twice
rather since the beginning
of it all

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from A Mutable Feast or: The Ghost of a Flea, released June 18, 2021

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