Lyrics

BIRTHRIGHT
Boy you better run
Boy you better run
Boy you better run ‘fore the mornin’ comes
Boy you better run
Get your daddy’s gun
Cuz the devil’s gonna come ‘fore the sunrise

There’s tobacco in my teeth and I can’t feel the sun
Mamma told me go get my daddy’s gun
She said hide up in the cupboard and be ready to run
Cuz you father’s on his way now to get his wife

Well Papa came in and grabbed her by the throat
He said I’m gonna wear you like a new fur coat
Tell me ‘bout my Sonny and I’ll let you go
Cuz I’m back here now to give him his birthright

Then I hopped out and said drop my mother
I won’t let you kill her, me or my brother
This shootin’ irons full of silver and lead
And I’ll shoot you dead ‘afore you can take our lives

Boy you better run
Boy you better run
Boy you better run before the morning sun
Boy you better run
Get you daddy’s gun
Cuz your daddy can’t walk through the sunlight

Well my daddy played a big white banjitar
Smoked a tall hollow empty glass cigar
He said come with me Sonny and I’ll take you far
Now don’t you go tellin’ people true lies

He said gold might do but silver won’t do it
You gotta find my heart and run a stake right through it
Listen here son and let me say what we are
Cuz you’re just like me boy just decide

He said I ain’t no devil and I ain’t no man
I sleep hangin down from a ceilin’ fan
I’m an ancient pale Transylvanian
And you’re just like me boy live or die

Boy you better run
Boy you better run
Boy you better run for the mornin’ comes
Boy you better run
Get your daddy’s gun
Cuz your devil daddy don’t devil daddy don’t devil daddy don’t can’t walk can’t run out through
the sunrise
Woah oh oh
Ay ay ya

Well I left home with my father won’t see mamma again
Got to say goodbye to brother cuz he’s only just a man
I’ll become a vampire
Through the bayou I’ll flee
I’ll sail out on through the swamplands down to New Orleans

Boy you better run
Boy you better run
Boy you better run for the mornin’ comes
Boy you better run
Get your daddy’s gun
Cuz the devil’s gonna come before the sunrise

Boy you better run
Boy you better run
Oh boy you better run before the mornin’ sun
Boy you better run
Get your daddy’s gun cuz your daddy can’t walk through the sunlight

Boy you better run
Boy you better run
Boy you better run before the mornin’ comes
Boy you better run
Get your daddy’s gun
Cuz the devil can’t walk through a church’s light

Boy you better run
Boy you better run
Oh boy you better run before the mornin’ sun
Boy you better run
Get your daddy’s gun
Cuz your daddy can’t walk through a salt line

On leather wings we’ll fly away
And drink blood till the Judgment Day
We’ll feast on bees and birds and flies
Never have any alibis

On leather wings we’ll fly away
And drink blood till the Judgment Day
We’ll feast on bees and birds and swine
You’re not yours you’re only mine

On leather wings we’ll fly away
And drink blood till the Judgment Day
We’ll feast on bees and birds and flies
Never have any alibis

On leather wings we’ll fly away
And drink blood till the Judgment Day
We’ll feast on bees and birds and swine
You’re not yours you’re only mine
On leather wings we’ll fly away

And drink blood till the Judgment Day
We’ll feast on bees and birds and flies
You’ll never have any alibis

On leather wings we’ll fly away
And drink blood till the Judgment Day
We’ll feast on bees and birds and swine
You’re not yours you’re only mine