Death Don't Have No Mercy

Death Don't Have No Mercy

Gary Davis with additional lyrics by Andrew M. Cohen & William Lee Ellis
© Downtown DLJ Songs LLC OBO Budde Music Inc.

Death don't have no mercy in this land
Death don't have no mercy in this land
North and south, east and west
kills the weak and weakens the rest
Death don't have no mercy in this land

Death gonna take your schoolchild in this land
Death gonna take your children in this land
Send them to school, they stand in a line
Some might die but the rest will be fine
Death keep somebody always cryin' in this land

Death take a swipe at your family in this land
Take your brother and sister in this land
Killing this world by degrees
The strongest of all down on their knees
Death take the last one out your family in this land

Sickness spreadin' like poison in this land
Sickness spreadin out awful in this land
It may cripple the rich, but it kills the poor
Don’t count the sick, there's always more
Death won't leave in a hurry in this land

Money's worth more than people in this land
Money's worth more than your children in this land
Have to keep shakin' that money tree
Death’s the first customer, don’t you see
Death ain't nothin' but a robber this land

Death takes hold of its own all over this land
Death can take anybody in this land
It comes for you, it comes for me
Whispers your name so quietly
Death don't have no mercy in this land