She said ‘punch me in the stomach'
I said girl I do not know,
If I punch you in the stomach
That our child inside will not grow.
She said ‘if you truly love me
You'll do this thing for me,'
So I punched her in the stomach
And she fell down to both of her knees.
There's a goose walkin' over my grave
There's a goose walkin' over my grave
We went on down the mountain
We paid up for the country fair,
All the men they spied her flat gut
And the women sent birds up to air.
Then we found ourselves a half-breed
To tell us our fortune today,
He painted my hands a deep dark red said,
«Now boy you know you gotta pay.'
Well she spat and she swore
She ground all her teeth
Then she swolled up all her veins,
She said, ‘mister for claimin'
All that ya know don't you know my brother's bird brained!'
‘Whoah back up girl didn't you heat the half-breed,
Sayin' somethin' bout…
Well I don't know'
She pulled me away
By my goosefleshed flesh,
She's too late I caught up to my slow.
We went back up the mountain
We sat down upon our front porch,
And come yonder carryin' a bucket
Was our dead child doin' his chores.
So we drunk down a bucket of chokecherry wine
And she dunked her thumbs inside,
With her thumbs dyed red she grabbed my head
And she gouged out both of mine eyes.
There's a goose walkin' over my grave
There's a goose walkin' over my grave
So I drug her down the mountain,
Turned her over to the town youths.
As she lay there squiblin' and squablin' I said
‘girl now your my goose.'
Then she crawled up to me
On her bloody red knees and said,
‘why did you do this to me?'
I said ‘sister let me tell you what you do not know,
I was blind but now I can see.'
«I was blind but now I can see»