Standing in the ruins of another black man's life Or flying through the valley separating day and night "I am death!" cried the vulture, "for the people of the light"
Charon brought his raft from the sea that sails on souls And saw the scavenger departing, taking warm hearts to the cold He knew the ghetto was a haven for the meanest creature ever known
In the wilderness of heartbreak and a desert of despair Evil's clarion of justice shrieks a cry of naked terror Taking babies from their mamas, leaving grief beyond compare
This song is a combination of Robert Johnson’s ‘Me and the Devil Blues’ and a poem GSH wrote from the book ‘The Vulture’. In 1970 when the book was released he also recorded the prose as a song.
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