Leave My Bones Alone*

from Battery Powered Mystery Action by John Dog

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I guess I was too young when I died
To know why you lie
Do you even know why you lie?
Summer breezes blow me down a filthy street
in the kind of detail you should not repeat
My mother's scared to answer the phone
So please leave my bones alone

With all your hounds still drunk overseas
And summer to fill
You know you were happy to see
That the Crown was taking him down for trial
I saw you make a mob and then pretend to hate them
They descended on my photographs and ate them
Wouldn't you think, with kids of their own
That they'd leave my bones alone

The jury had to see where I died
You held the front page and twenty more inside
Please tell me why the world had to hear each blow

But then a junior minister and some young actor
Were discovered snorting up some feelgood factor

And only when their cover was blown
Did you leave my bones alone

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from Battery Powered Mystery Action, released February 4, 2011
Vocals, guitars and GB bass and percussion by John Dog. Marimba and cellos arranged and performed by Paul Harvey

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John Dog Galway, Ireland

John Dog is a singer and songwriter from Galway, Ireland. A true believer in the popular song, his own are often wordy, arguably tuneful, occasionally funny, and usually short.

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