Death Sound Blues

Country Joe & The Fish

I hear that death sound, baby,

Oh, like an echo in my brain.

I hear that death sound, baby,

Oh, like an echo in my brain.

Well, there's a part of us dying,

You know things will never be the same,

Ah, never be the same!



I feel the black nails a-poundin' now,

Yes, into the coffin of our love.

Hear the black nails a-poundin' now,

Yes, into the coffin of our love.

Well, like a black shrouded hunter now,

Don't you know that I have killed a snow-white dove,

Oh, I've killed a dove!



Well, the time sands keep a-fallin' now

On toward our ending day.

Yeah, the time sands keep a-fallin'

Towards our ending day.

I see the minutes chasing the hours, Yes, to the words that we should say,

Ah, we should say!