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Saxonburg, Ohio

from Coroner & Knives by Al Duvall

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Have you heard about the sad affair of Lydia Dupree The postman showed her letters to the ladies after tea She was of a certain age when a woman sheds the guise Of venereal indifference to remarks and winking eyes Seems a cook came off a riverboat and met her for a date And he gave to her a child who would face a bastard’s fate When they offered their condolences she rudely slammed her gate And they cry-o What’s become of decency in Saxonburg Ohio, There were several other incidents unspeakable and foul Mr. Baxter took a megaphone and held it to his bowel Mrs. Cole put on her furs and resided in a tree And the baker filled his crullers with all manner of debris When they find the deacon naked in a stable with a horse They decide they’ve all been acted on by some malignant force So they call upon a psychic to reveal the evil source And they cry-o What’s possessed the gentlefolk of Saxonburg Ohio, In a broken Conestoga off the Cincinnati Road Squats a twisted old Melungeon with the features of a toad And he moves his little dolls through his miniature town But the sheriff swings his club and the spell is broken down Then they beat him and they slice him as he stuggles in his chains And the teacher lets the pupils stick their fingers in his brains And they tinsel the gazebo with his skeletal remains And they cry-o No one makes a mockery of Saxonburg Ohio

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from Coroner & Knives, released March 20, 2005

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