Seatrain
Seatrain - Scratch lyrics
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It was not far from the place that I was born Times were slow I was young A strange young man lived in our town We used to call him Scratch The undertaker's son Now Scratch was tall and bent like a willow in the wind He could not speak a single word tho something raged in him For every night til dawn he'd sit up on Pilgram's Hill Playing crazed and lonely songs On his wore out violin The people of the town would laugh at Scratch with scorn They could not see the loneliness inside his twisted form All except for Mercy Shaw who chose to be his friend She came to him almost every night Until the autumn's end One dark night on the cliffs above the town Mercy went to meet him so the story goes around Scratch turned round to take her hand Mercy didn't know He heard her cry he saw her fall To the valley far below And oh the wayward wind Down in the valley Sounds like folks are out there cryin' And oh this helpless feeling deep inside me A man can only keep on tryin' To keep from dyin' You know they looked for Scratch for many nights and days And tho they could not find him They say his spirit stays For every night I hear the wailin' of a violin I know that it's only lonely Scratch The under taker's son