Jephthah's Blues Video (MV)

Blood. Mother's blood. My brothers couldn't come to term with Mother's blood
So I fled
They recruited me for war. I devastated twenty towns. Went off to war
So many bled

Then I came back home
To the sound of tambourines
Now I know
What devastation really means

Tore. Tore my clothes. Tore my clothes when I saw her
Tore my clothes. And I cried
Door. Out the door came my one and only daughter
Out the door. Go back inside

But I gave my word
And I can't go backward now
To the Lord
I have made a solemn vow

(She said) Father, my father, now you must do to me... O my father
Just what you said
You promised the Lord and He smote your enemies. You made a vow
I'm good as dead

But please grant me-O I have but one request
Two more months... Let me weep with all my friends

Let me roam these hills for I will never marry
I'll mourn for days unspent
Let me go with my friends. For these two months we'll tarry
Then I'll return to you and face my death

O my daughter, my child, how miserable am I
I wish that I could find another way instead
So go, please go, you may go, my little sweetheart
Wretched though I am, this is the depth... of my blues
Ol' Jephthah's blues