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The Old Grey Man Of Ben MacDuie

from Songs Of The Hollow Bone Moon (songs only) by Pete and the Tar Gang

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lyrics

You better shine your shoes & buckle your boots & whisper a
thousand frantic prayers…
For the Old Grey Man won’t spare your soul when you’re TREADIN’ THE CONFINES OF HIS LAND!

Ooooh! (X4 Choral)

You better peel your eyes with an eagles eyes and shiver a thousand frantic stares…
For these slopes are mean as they are’ a’ green, and his TERROR WILL PAUSE YOU IN YOUR PATH!!

Ooooh! (X4 Choral)

(With backup vocals) Oh, Ben Macduie, Ben Macduie, Ben Macduie spots a friend…
His eyes wont stare and his fist wont dare but his MAMMOTH SIZE WILL
STOP YA DEAD!!

Ooooh! (X4 Choral)

Old Uncle Moes bones turned to stones and his mouth is a tin box locked and stashed…
Old Momma Magee can’t find the key, that TIN BOX IS TOUGHER THAN A WILD STAG!!

Ooooh! (X4 Choral)

Now the old grey man is everywhere and yet nowhere where you do dare to stare…
His shadow is dancing at your back and his song it a’ rumbles through the air…
A thousand thunders in your head and a million hail stones full of dread…...

Ooooh! (X4 Choral)

You better run all night, run home from fright, through the hills of gnomes and skeleton hands…
But it is so hard to run when the air does hum and your legs are TWO PILLARS FULL OF LEAD!!

Ooooh! (X4 Choral)

Oh, Ben Macduie, Ben Macduie, Ben Macduie where are you?
I can feel your eyes like a surgeons knife; I can hear your noise LIKE A REAPERS SCYTHE!
There’s a million stones to stumble downward home, and I’m too damn scared to EVER FUCKING DARE!
Oh, Ben Macduie, Ben Macduie, Ben Macduie WHERES YOUR FACE!?!...
All grey and moley, dark and smokey, a cobbled nose of ROUGH AND SCRATCH!
Oh, Ben Macduie, Ben Macduie, Ben Macduie WHERE ARE YOU!?!...
These dry old bones are now turned to stones and this rusty mouth is locking fast……

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from Songs Of The Hollow Bone Moon (songs only), released August 20, 2014

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Pete and the Tar Gang Melbourne, Australia

Pete and the Tar Gang (2006 to 2011) made songs about the sea, obsession, the wild man, ghosts, love gone wrong, post apocalyptic scenarios, the sublimely self deluded and characters pushed to various extremes.
The musical styles are as diverse as blues, folk, rock and operatic cabaret.
The Tar Gang was a posse taking various shapes, according to the material mined by Pete. ... more

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