The Cholera Well Lyrics

Levellers The Cholera Well

Down, down, come on down Follow me down to the cholera well

Senator come take my hand Here feel the flames you have fanned A blood-red symphony in sand Remember that Jonestown smell It could have been Afghanistan The slow destruction of Sudan Not to be found in published plans A covert genocide

By night the US planes descend Deals are struck with pay-roll friends An arms bazaar that never ends And the Russians land by morning The militia-men are throwing dice For a days handful of beans and rice Wiring an old soviet device Like a claymore mine

When everything is blown to hell They'll sit down by the cholera well And drink its poison from mortar shells Fired-off that day Can you feel the stomach cramps? Two million in internment camps We're complicit in our negligence Of all of these holocausts