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Mama's Gonna Put On Her Big Black Hat and Eat the Sun

from The End Is Nigh but the Night Is Young by Strangers On A Train

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All the cats are in the courtyard,
stretching legs and shedding skin
And the brokentoothed maw of a corpse-grey thaw
says it's time to start your drinkin'

Hookhanded toddlers croak
through parched lips for vodka
And the acid slashed face of a tortuous day
turns the sky a wondrous bloodbath

Weathered hands grasp the clouds
A strength like hatred propels her on
Mama's gonna put on her big black hat and eat the sun
Mama's gonna put on her big black hat and eat the sun

Drunks and their dogs fall vomiting
side by side in torrents thick
and with bodies stripped bare rub the chunks in their hair
as their tongues all wag and lick

Then a rumbling laugh engulfs the earth
from our dark and dreary past
and it rattles each hearse, spurs the birds in their verse
they sing "The end has come at last"

Weathered hands...

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from The End Is Nigh but the Night Is Young, released November 30, 2018

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Strangers On A Train Copenhagen, Denmark

Cabaret, sea shantys, polka, vaudeville and echoes of tango all meet up when Strangers On A Train take the stage. It is music that unfolds after dark and will take you on a ride through the dark side of life with songs about lust, temptation, fornication, covert beauty and drunken suffering.

We promise you loads of harmonica, music for your dancing shoes and stories from the unknown taverns.
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