Black mule

The neighing of the horses in the moonlight woke him up
There was a line of ice across his cup
Except for the wind in the corn, the world was perfectly still
The moon hung over the window sill

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Four men on horses came riding up;
They dragged him out into the clearing
They said, "Listen here mister, if you don't give us all your gold
We're gonna give you a hell of a beating"

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Just then a nun on a black mule came riding by;
She said: "Oh Gentlemen, what are you doing?
If you don't leave that man alone
I'm going to punish you for evil-doing"

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Well, you know bad men; they never listen
They went up in a puff of brimstone
She cut him down, she led him by the hand to a cave
Took him into a world of limestone

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She bathed his wounds. She put salt on his back
She read to him from a great big book
When he was healed, she led him by the hand
Said, "Go into the world and take a look"

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He was walking down a Beirut street when a car-bomb blew him up
Oh, life can be cruel
When they took him to the mortuary to identify his fingerprints
All they found were the hoofprints of a mule

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