Dachau Blues lyrics

[Chorus: Captain Beefheart]

Dachau blues, those poor Jews

Dachau blues, those poor Jews

Dachau blues, Dachau blues, those poor Jews

Still crying 'bout the burning back in World War Two's

One mad man, six million lose

Down in Dachau blues, down in Dachau blues

[Verse 1: Captain Beefheart]

The world can't forget that misery

And the young ones now beggin' the old ones please

To stop bein' madmen

'Fore they have to tell their children

'Bout the burnings back in World War Three's

[Verse 2: Captain Beefheart]

War One was balls an' powder an' blood an' snow

War Two rained death an' showers an' skeletons

Danced an' screaming an dying in the ovens

Cough an' smoke an' dying by the dozens

[Chorus: Captain Beefheart]

Down in Dachau blues

Down in Dachau blues

[Verse 3: Captain Beefheart]

Three little children with doves on their shoulders

Their eyes rolled back in ecstasy crying

Please, old man stop this misery

They're countin' out the devil

With two fingers on their hands

Begging the Lord don't let the third one land

On World War Three

On World War Three

[Outro: Mark Boston]

It's attracted a lot of rats, and uh

They closed the doors, and uh

They often shut this that rush out these rats

And nothing happened

They couldn't get the rats to move, see

So they sent one fellow down there, he said um

He- stammered, uh and uh

He exactly couldn't talk at all, see

They got them down there and uh

Walls said, I'll get them out of there

And he took a stitch 'n beatin them

Thrashing them, hit them hard to get them out of there

Then started shooting em up the walls' directions

And on the wall thought he was gonna get killed