Freakwater
Blood and fire
(C. Irwin)

Catherine Ann Irwin - Guitar, Vocals
Janet Beveridge Bean - Guitar, Vocals, Percussion
David Gay - Upright Bass
Jon Alexander Spiegel - Dobro, Pedal Steel, Banjo, Slide Guitar
John Rice - Fiddle, Mandolin, Pedal Steel

copyright 1991 Freakwater Publishing (BMI)
copyright 1997 Thrill Jockey Records

Intro: G

 G                D         G
Silver hands can grip your heart 
 G                    D       G
Too much blood they slipped apart 
     G                 D      G
The Lord he hears his family cry
 G                D           G 
Too much glory's burnt their eyes
 
 C                       
Emeralds are green and blood is red 
G                 D    G         
So many years so many dead

  
Rubber bullets flying fast 
Another slave is freed at last  
Pass one flowers mark the place 
a soldier lost his pretty face 
Rain that makes the fuchsias grow 
Blood rain makes a head strong throw 
Burning tires, smoky blow down 
where river of bodies flowing 
North and South through every town 
South and North Blood soaked around 
Have a beer for the king who died 
Says his mother welling up with pride 
Ditch the car and feel the blast 
Burning higher than the last 
Hair is red as blood and fire 
Go tell your god that he's a liar

From "Dancing Under Water"