Elephant In The Dock

[Verse 1] Pillory stocks at the gallows tree dock The crowd grew impatient as the clouds threatened rain Elephant arrived at the Constable's side With her trunk locked in shackles, and her ankles in chains "All rise, all rise, his Honor presides" The Judge took the bench to the village brass cavalcade Elephant refused to swear the oath Said "I don't know anything about truth But I know falsehood when I see it And it looks like this whole world you've made" Good of our chaplain to sail Kalispell Bay And now down on his marrow for this old fool to pray "Lord, for sixty-some years I'd surrendered my love To emblems of kindness And not the kindness they were emblems of Trammels and rings, with the strength of old strings And some hobble skirt spring, by the old problem caught Children, sometimes I think all our thoughts are just things And then sometimes think things are just thoughts" And the rabble rang [Chorus] "Hang the Elephant must hang the Elephant must hang! Hang the Elephant must hang the Elephant must hang!" [Verse 2] "A thirteen coil knot for the samovar pot! Scottish Oatcakes in haversacks each to its grave This mock trial can no more determine my lot Than can driftwood determine the ocean's waves Brandish your ropes and your boards, and your basket-hilt swords But what is there can punish like a conscience ignored? Yes, my body did just as you implied While some ghost we'll call 'I' idly watched through its eyes" And the jury sang [Chorus] "Hang the Elephant must hang the Elephant must hang! Hang the Elephant must hang the Elephant must hang!" "Hang the Elephant must hang the Elephant must hang! Hang the Elephant must hang the Elephant must hang!" [Outro] I feel it stealing now I feel it stealing now I feel it stealing now All adrift fathoms down