Paw Paw Tree Lyrics - The Fiery Furnaces

At last when the choice was neither nor, 

Bottom of the bay we're set ashore. 

Went into town beg what we lack: 

200 stripes on horseback. 

Wearing my yellow coat, 

Rope tied around my throat: 

Great green wax candle unlit; 

Silence! And then the sentence spit. 

I'm sitting up in my paw paw tree 

Wait they make mango mush outta me. 

Pick axe I can't stay 

Silver mines all day. 

Cut down the weedwood 

And think that I just could. 

I'm sitting up in my paw paw tree 

Wait they make mango mush outta me. 

Tied down with brown twine 

Up past the tree line 

Up by I hope where 

The King of Spain don't care. 

I'm sitting up in my paw paw tree 

Wait they make mango mush outta me.