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Story behind the song
Read Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" to understand more.
Lyrics
[C] Everyone seems to need someone to [F] blame
So they [C] don’t have to feel all the [G] shame
It [C] started way back on the school play[F]ground
And it [G] spread the wide world [C] round
[F] What did you [G] see in his [C] eyes
when he became the town sacri[G]fice
Did he [F] claim he was [G] innocent of the [C] charges
or [F] did he ad[G]mit to the crimes in the [C] garden
[C] We called him Billy but that was not his [F] name
We [C] thought those gardeners all sounded the [G] same
He [C] had one dark eye pointed towards the [F] sky
And the [G] other was red like cherry [C] pie
[F] What did you [G] see in those [C] eyes
when the people started spreading those [G] lies
Did he [F] swear he wasn’t [G] guilty of the [C] charges
or [F] did he [G] flash the scene from the [C] garden
[C] Dear Sarah was missing but her body was never [F] found
Her torn [C] cloths on the roses and her heels lay on the [G] ground
Its was [C] Billy who tended that garden where the blood was [F] discovered
So they [G] descended upon him like a stampeding [C] herd
[F] What did you [G] see in his [C] eyes
when the evidence was sprinkled with [G] lies
Did he [F] swear he wasn’t [G] guilty of the [C] charges
or [F] did he ad[G]mit to those crimes in the [C] garden
[G] Heavy is the judgement pencil of man[C]kind
It [G] can’t be erased with time from the [C] mind
The black mark was written on Billy’s [F] papers
But with [G] each stone thrown he tried to pray for [C] her
Chorus break
[C] Everyone seems to need someone to [F] blame
So they [C] don’t have to feel all the [G] shame
It [C] all ended when Billy fell to the [F] ground
And dear [G] Sarah found her way back into [C] town
[F] What did you [G] see in her [C] eyes
when she saw the town sacri[G]fice
She [F] knew he was [G] innocent of the [C] charges
But [F] she would never ad[G]mit to her sins of the [C] garden
