O, Mother

Lyrics

She was a low-down, no-good snake in the grass Breathing fire and drinking from a stolen flask But I shot her in the chest and I watched her die; Won't say I'm sorry and I never will cry Chorus: O, Mother don't you know That the devil reaps all the seeds you sow? O, Daddy, can't you see That the bottom's hidden when the well is deep? I was a slave to the woman for seven years Tending vines in her garden of blood and tears But she taught me well how to make things bleed And she never saw it coming when it came from me Chorus How the sins of a father will haunt their child In a whiskey halo and a lonely smile But when family resemblance rears its head You can dig it up or you can bury it dead Chorus