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Introduction to Separation

1.             At first, my mother hurt.

                She slipped, slapped an'...

2.             At first, my mother wept.

                She stayed inside an'...

3.             At first my father lied.

                He knew the dirt, but wouldn'...

4.             At first my father slept.

                He tried, but stretched inside, an'...

- * -

1.             When she caught me doin'

                Those things, I knew no good, but...

2.             Then she dose 'n' dose

                Those tablets made her... , so...

3.             Need that work so bad

                To make some bread to live 'n...

4.             O! My God my father froze

                To papier, so? and so? 'n...

1.             Then she saw me hate

                An' she started frighten' up 'n

2.             Then she sow'd 'em out

                To reaper man o' bin 'n

3.             So he work'd 'n' work'd 'n

                Fell to have no win 'n

4.             Help 'm by my dad, shout!

                My God! 'n dead to him...

- * -

1.             Out to see herself

                Blinding Light, So Hurt!

2.             Woken On To She

                Shut Up Shot to In

3.             Out He Popped Despair

                'N There He Was We Lurk'd

4.             There To Peeps of Us

                From frozen life in Sin

1&2.         But, oh! The end to Law 'n

                                IN to major war 'n

4.             Wow! What 'n' did hit... me?

- Simon Huggins, 5th November 1992