Wicked Messenger (Live on Dave Lee Travis, BBC, 3/15/70)

[Intro]

Now here's one for all blues fans

Now one for Dylan fans too, come to that

We bring back Faces here

And as you'll notice, they're using the steel sound like everyone else

This is called "Wicked Messenger"

[Verse 1]

There was a wicked messenger

From Eli he did come

With a mind that multiplied the smallest matter

When questioned who had sent for him

He answеred with his thumb

For his tongue it could not speak, but only flattеr, woo

[Verse 2]

He stayed behind the assembly hall

It was there that he made his bed

And oftentimes he could be seen returning

[Bridge]

The leaves began to falling

And the seas began to part

And the people that confronted him were many

[Verse 3]

Oh, the leaves began to falling

And the seas began to part

And the people that confronted him were many

And he was told but these few words

Which opened up his heart

“If ye cannot bring good news, then don't bring any”

[Outro]

Woo

Oh, oh, woah