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The Black Plague
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Eric Burdon
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[Gregorian chants]
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The bell tolls
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The black plague has struck
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Diseased eyes roll upwards
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As if knowing which direction their souls will travel
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(bring out your dead)
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A woman in black cries
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As the deathly procession passes by
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And monks moan en masse
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[Gregorian chants]
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The yet clean peasant pounds upon the castle door
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For it is safer inside the walls
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Their knocking pounds a dull tone across the quiet, deserted courtyard
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The bodies of unfortunates bloat in the hot sun outside the castle walls
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And ones ignorant of all facts plunder the diseased corpses for remaining riches.
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(bring out your dead)
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And the bell tolls on
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A man walks around the castle walls on the outside
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The light from his lamp dancing shadows as he moves
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He tends the sick
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Gives comfort to all he can for dying woman and crying man
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But he feels it most for the children
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(unclean)
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Tears glisten on his cheek
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Did man ever deserve this death?
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And not all will die, just the poor
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For the rich are inside the castle walls
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And he knows he could be with them
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And they laugh at this fool of a man
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Through the stone fortress windows
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And the bell tolls on
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(unclean)
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And many deaths and many days later
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Many tears have been cry cried but in vain
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For tears can never erase the pain of death
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Only time has that talent
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His hands are now blistered but this man walks on
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The only element of sanity that the people look to him for answers and he answers all
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And the bell tolls on inside the castle wall
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(bring out your dead)
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The dead are now buried and the plague is at its end
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Life for the people flowers again
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They breathe fresh air like they did once before
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And there is not a sound from beyond the castle walls
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The bell has stopped
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And only silence is heard
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And the peasants outside wonder what happened within
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In their bones they feel something is wrong
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The bell has been silent much too long
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For many days not one soul has stirred from the stone fortress where the rich people live
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No one came and no one went
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Fear can do many strange things
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And even though water ran low
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Their mouths burnt and belly's caked dry
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Not one person put a foot outside
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No one had that much courage
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For they feared the peasants and their world outside
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So they played it safe and didn't move
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But one by one they perished and died
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