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Workhouse Blues

from Workhouse Blues by Twenty-One Crows

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Workhouse Blues

I.
God is good
His love is pure
But for that love
We must endure,.

We must conform
We must obey
And beg forgiveness
Day by day.

We must atone
We must repent
The years in poverty
We’ve spent.

Though fate’s a savage
Pitching sea
We still must shape
Our destiny.

But the ship of life
We’ve failed to steer
And that is why
We’ve washed up here.

The Workhouse walls
Are cruel and grey
And in its shadowed halls
We pray.

Its yard we pound
With ragged feet
Come wind, come rain
Come winter’s sleet.

And then with battered
Broken hands
We unpick oakum
Strand by strand.

From work, they say
Comes liberty
But we can never now
Be free.

For, however short
Our lives may be
We’ll carry this shame
For eternity.

But do not shed
A tear for us
We did not try
We lost God’s trust.

Our souls are not
Worth weeping for
We are
The Undeserving Poor.

II.
If God’s love
Were truly pure
He would not make us
To endure.

He would not
Punish us this way
He’d hear our voices
When we pray.

But ‘tis not God
Who judges thus
‘Tis not God
Despises us.

God did not make
The world of men
Nor does he rule
Or govern them.

‘Twas men
And only men alone
That drove us here
And stole our homes.

That broke us
In this wretched place
That shamed our names
With this disgrace.

Our sins
We’ll gladly suffer for
But it’s not our sin
That we are poor.

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from Workhouse Blues, released December 17, 2017

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Dominic Plucknett, Rebecca Tann, Jon Griffin and Andy Thomas

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