Axe Mountain (Revisited)
John Smith
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Sit down here beside me, I'll tell you a sad old tale Of lonely old Axe Mountain town, of Lester Joseph Cale A place the men would work all day Where women worked all night But came togetherevening time To love and then to fight Long hours did the women work So hard their burden was Doubly hard they worried when Young Lily May was lost Lily May was mourned, another week passed in the rain 'Til the day of harvest came and we were missing Jane Another season's toil broke another one more Lily, Jane and dozens still were buried on the moors What did their husbands say? They're just cowards, they're just weak and frail None would dare to even speak his name: Lester Joseph Cale Axe Mountain, you let those people die on a knife A lover did I know for sure I'll love her all my life He came out of the darkness with a rucksack made of skin As soon as he was seen, he was gone again I heard he'd been a murderer for fifteen years and more Whole villages are gone all over the moor And I heard he had a family once, a child and a wife But now nobody here is safe from Lester Joseph Cale's knife ""Stand up! Be strong! I'll get him!"" said the bravest of the men Dead in bed he's found that night, in pieces he was ten ""They shall be bled,"" it's written in red on the bedroom walls Helena she saw this and she fled across the moor She flew up old Axe Mountain, raised one hand and cried ""Grant me a weapon, god of mine! Lester Cale must die!"" And the sky it cracked, it split the mountain, she reached inside Pulled out an axe so terrible that any man on Earth would die She screamed with rage and flung herself into the town below Tore off her clothes and waited for Lester Joseph Cale to show And show he did, he came and laughed, he said ""Little girl, what's the plan? You're alone It's you and me, I butchered your old man"" She said ""No! Don't speak his name! Don't mention my man!"" She struck him in the face, cut off both his hands She cut him once, twice, three, four, she could cut no more Fed the meat and bones to wild dogs upon the moor The years went on, Helena remained there 'til she died The men went off in search of better jobs, in search of brides But a woman there was mine, I loved her more than life But so scared was I So scared of Lester Joseph Cale was I So scared was I I could not protect my wife Axe Mountain, how'd you let those people die at his blade? A lover did I know for sure and regret it every day Axe Mountain, you let those people die on a knife A lover did I know for sure I loved her I'll miss her All my life.
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