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Twelve Perfect Files

from Harlem Hayride by Karl Straub & the Graverobbers

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lyrics

In Raleigh, North Carolina,
Just before his execution
Sidney Etheridge, forty-five,
Temporarily still alive,
Was waiting to be punished for his crime.
While dead men prayed in other cells
His recipe for enjoying Hell
Was taken down by a journalist from Time.

“You take a black cat, and you go into the woods
The wind will come and bow the limbs of trees
And sweep the ground clean.
You boil your black cat in an iron pot
Pull the bones between your teeth
The wind will make a clearing for the bones.
For nine straight mornings you walk backwards for nine steps and forward nine
Cussing God and Jesus Christ with every breath.
You’re possessed now by the Devil
He’s your father and your mother.”

And there’s twelve perfect files in every dozen.

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from Harlem Hayride, released July 19, 2013
@ 2013 Karl Straub, Clever Bits Music (BMI)

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Karl Straub Alexandria, Virginia

KARL STRAUB writes music the way birds build nests, throwing together something sturdy from whatever detritus is lying around. Bubblegum pop, Charlie Parker, Merle Haggard and Bob Wills, Rodgers & Hart, psych fuzz, the Dolls and Velvet Underground, etc.
Straub basically uses two approaches when he writes lyrics— storytelling and impressionism.
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