John Northern - Brecht Down in Memphis Lyrics

The cop waltzed around the gypsy camp
To the sound of sour mash cannon fire
Running down his legs and out his soulless shoes
On the tripwire of them country blues

Oh the river heaves and wretches
The excess of five hundred years
Body parts transmissions
Forgotten promises and tears

The priest and farmer lit up the swamp
With dream traders and first strike pigs
Writing up receipts for them unpaid dues
To jackboot Nazis with them railroad blues

Oh the river heaves and wretches
The excess of five hundred years
Body parts transmissions
Forgotten promises and tears

Oh that river Mississippi
Oh that river wide Missouri
Oh that river Ganges and the Nile

Napoleon and Geronimo watch Pretty Polly
Gaze into the Sun's dying fire
Drinking up all that morning dew
While she sings those deep river blues

The river heaves and wretches
The excess of five hundred years
Body parts transmissions
Forgotten promises and tears

Oh that river Mississippi
Oh that river wide Missouri
Oh that river Ganges and the Nile

Elvis in Paris feeling alright
Elvis in Paris feeling alright
I said the bank is left I said the bank is right
Elvis in Paris shaking all night

Twelve hundred and fifty feet above the ground
Twelve hundred and fifty feet above the ground
That blue horizon don't make no sound
Come on sugar got to lay it down

Fire fight in the Louvre the Seine runs red
Fire fight in the Louvre the Seine runs red
And Pablo the Basque has Venus' head
Paris is burning and Elvis is dead