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The Devil's Whip - words & music by Roger Gregg

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The Devil’s Whip - 2’ 48”
Words & Music by Roger Gregg. 2013.

A wild fearless boy
sparkle in his eye
The tumbling impish acrobat
Who’d always make Mama laugh.
Child of reckless joy
Dancing on his hands
Making daring leaps in life
Never caring where he’d land.

Then came that autumn night
He was passed a rotten pipe
N’ the tail of the Devil’s whip
swung ‘round with a crack
Then with an innocent grip
He put the mouth of hell to his lip
And oh, there was no going back

Long gone the big brown eyes
Now red with bitter tears.
He stumbles on his thorny path
Years since he’s made Mama laugh.
And now I see a ghost
In shackles where he stands
Dead to all he once loved most
A shadow of a man.

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from Serpent In The Bee​-​Loud Glade, released April 5, 2013
Roger Gregg - Voice, Keyboards, Synth, Saxophones, Percussion.

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Roger Gregg / The Bee-Loud Glade Ireland

Roger Gregg is an award winning playwright, composer, multi-instrumentalist and actor. His plays have been produced in Ireland, Germany, Australia and the U.S. In 2006 in a special feature reviewing his work, BBC Radio 4 hailed him as ‘one of a handful of truly great radio dramatists’. He is composer and director behind the on-going series of Bee-Loud Glade cabarets. ... more

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