The Frozen Man - Live At The Colonial Theatre / 2007

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Here's a picture of the frozen man
 Uh, which just goes to show you that even if you die
 Before the invention of photography
 You're still not safe
 God have mercy on the frozen man
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 Last thing I remember is the freezing cold
 Water reaching up just to swallow me whole
 Ice in the rigging and howling wind
 Shock to my body as we tumbled in
 My brothers and the others were lost at sea
 I alone am returned to tell thee
 Hidden in ice for a century
 I walk the world again
 Lord have mercy on the frozen man
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 Next words that were spoken to me
 Nurse asked me what my name might be
 She was all in white at the foot of my bed
 I said, "Angel of mercy, I'm alive or am I dead?"
 My name is William James McPhee
 I was born in 1823, I was
 Raised in Liverpool by the sea, but
 That ain't who I am
 Lord have mercy on the frozen man
 It took a lot of money to start my heart
 Just to peg my leg and to buy my eye
 The newspapers call me state of the art
 And the children, when they see me they cry
 Well, I thought it'd be nice just to visit my grave
 See what kind of tombstone I might have
 There lay the wife and daughter and it seemed so strange
 So strange
 Both of them dead and gone from extreme old age
 I say, when I die make sure I'm gone
 Don't leave 'em nothing to work on
 You can raise your arm, you can wiggle your hand
 Unlike myself
 So you can wave goodbye to the frozen man
 Goodbye
 I know what it means to freeze to death
 To lose a little life with every breath
 To say goodbye to life on earth
 To come around again
 Lord have mercy on the frozen man
 God have mercy on the frozen man
 Have mercy on the frozen man
 

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Duration
05:07
Key
2
Tempo
131 BPM

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