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Awful Carnival

from Spaghetti Americana by THE BEARDS

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    1. Caledonia Avalanche Blues
    2. Life's A Long Hard Road
    3. No Meaner Man
    4. Postcard from Milwaukee
    5. Mephisto Potato Sauce
    6. In Wintertime
    7. Apatia degli Amanti
    8. Awful Carnival
    9. Il Chinino
    10. Blood Red River
    11. Drunky Sailor
    12. Perry Mason
    13. Rosteo Sensa Sangue
    14. Muskito
    15. Giorni Nebbiosi
    16. The Farmer

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From album: Muskito (2013)
Featuring: Aaron 'Professor Louie' Hurwitz & Miss Marie Spinosa, Julien Poulson

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Awful Carnival

Down at the awful carnival
People gather on Gibbet Hill
They string them up when the sun goes down
All the people come gather round
Convict corpses hanging high
What a way to live and die
Rolling dice with dead mans teeth
Stinking of lice and rotten meat
She smiles at me and I smile at her
The smell of death and love is blurred
All you need is a little bit of rum
Play your hand with a loaded gun
They send you up before the judge
I know your sort, you ne’er do well
You want water but I’ll give you wine
100 lashes of the cat-o-nine

You don’t want to go there
Or you’ll be the next on Gibbet Hill

If you go down to the woods today
You’re in for a big surprise
All you friends are dancing ‘round
Like they’re still alive
Singing drunk and crying out
Welcome to the carnival
Where dead men laugh and the living cry
Birds and rats have eaten their eyes
Bones turned white from the wind and sun
Come on over and have some fun

You don’t want to go there
Or you’ll be the next on Gibbet Hill

I see the children playing ball
Looks like the head of old Tom Hall
Once he had such a fine black beard
Once he was a man they feared
Came unstuck with Captain Blood
Now his head rolls in the mud
Children laugh and play their game
All their mothers have gone insane

You don’t want to go there
Or you’ll be the next on Gibbet Hill

Well… Pirate Jenny rings the bell
Calls out the name of the Captain’s girl
For a necklace made of silver and gold
That young girl is bought and sold
From ship to shore
From Heaven to Hell
Saints and sinners
I know you well
Tinker, tailor, beggar man, thief
Judge and jury, Indian chief
All go down to the carnival
Dancing to the hangman’s call

You don’t want to go there
Or you’ll be the next on Gibbet Hill

You don’t want to go there
Or you’ll be the next on Gibbet Hill

credits

from Spaghetti Americana, released March 28, 2015
Lyrics: Julien Poulson
Music: J.Poulson/M.Magro/E.Marchiori

Max Magro: Vocals, Electric Guitar
Emanuele Marchiori: Drums, Wooden Box Percussion, Bck. Vocals
Julien Poulson: Acoustic Guitar, Bck. Vocals
Professor Louie: Piano
Andrea Tolin: Bass

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THE BEARDS Venezia, Italy

The Beards is a original spaghetti country blues band with dirty and heavy sound formed in 2001 in Venice, Italy
The group has released 5 albums:
MEPHISTO POTATO SAUCE (2007);
DIGGIN'FINGERS (2009);
WIDMANN'S MANSION (2012) produced by legendary producer 5 Grammy nomination Aaron Hurwitz for Woodstock Records ;
MUSKITO (2013) with Julien Poulson for Metal Postcard Record;
EL BRIGANTE (2014);
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