Film/ TV Song Submission: Moonshine Poetry (Paula McMath and John Allen)

Song Title: No Holy Water (Gonna Get Me Clean)

Lyrics:

No Holy Water (Gonna Get Me Clean)
John Allan and Paula McMath, © 2020

I’ve been cut down from the hangman’s noose

Free to walk and the blood’s on you

Oh, I’ve crossed the river

I’ve slipped and I’ve slid right though your cold hands
Watching you search since this all began
Won’t stand or deliver

Ain’t no gold gonna buy my freedom
I close my eyes and I still see

A black heart… Still beating

No holy water’s gonna get me clean

I’ve been called out by the first quarter moon
To do something that

I don’t want to do

Oh, I’ve crossed the river
Won’t stand and deliver

Ain’t no gold gonna buy my freedom
I close my eyes and I still see

A black heart… Still beating

No holy water’s gonna get me clean

Yea, though I walk through the valley alone
I fear no evil no death’s shadow

I have no voice, no case to plea

Until the day my Lord comes for me

Ain’t no gold gonna buy my freedom
I close my eyes and I still see

A black heart… Still beating

No holy water’s gonna get me clean