Belly of the Beast-Madeline

[00:00.00] In the belly of the beast and out the blow-hole, [00:12.21]To the salty sea, she's a seagull boat, [00:16.59]Floating like a dead man all the dead tend to float [00:24.72]And her ghost came in like a silent thief, [00:28.95]Heard the drop of a pin, stole my beard of bees, [00:33.12]And there's no ugly buzzing for the keeper to keep, [00:41.82]Oh lo in the distance the stallion comes, [00:46.02]And they call him Lightning for his hind-legged run, [00:50.70]Boxing his hooves at the dampening dawn [00:59.10]Come, let Lightning strike me down, [01:03.12]I'm ready as I'll ever be right now, [01:06.78]But we can't understand her with her teeth out her mouth [01:15.18]She said " Come, let Lightning strike me down, [01:20.07]I'm ready as I'll ever be right now," [01:23.79]At the sound of applause, she took a swooping bow [01:32.88]We put heavy coins on her eyelids, [01:37.08]And we clothed her fast softening breast, [01:41.31]And her children were five flaming arrows, [01:45.54]And her ashes were solemnly left [01:49.53]To the wind, down to Puerto Rico, [01:53.64]Where her father stood silent, she laughed, [01:57.93]Looking down at her firm, able body, [02:02.19]And he pulled her now close to his chest [02:06.39]He said "I know each love is a lifetime, [02:10.98]My darling, I loved you my best, [02:14.91]Please don't cry child, it's been such a long time, [02:19.50]You look like the day that I left, [02:22.80]I left, I left, I left, I left" [02:29.88]So come, let Lightning strike me down, [02:34.41]I'm ready as I'll ever be right now, [02:38.13]In the belly of the beast and out the blow-hole, Lord