Lord Executor - Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard

Lord Executor - Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard

Hideous discoveries and monstrous crime

Always happen at the Christmas time

Hideous discoveries and monstrous crime

Always happen at the Christmas time

For the old year murders and the tragedy

For the new year serious calamity

What shocked Trinidad

Those seven skeletons that the workmen found in that yard

What marred the Christmas festivity

Was a new year double catastrophe

When a man and a woman on the ground was found

With bloodstains upon the ground

The husband was arrested but they were too late

For the poison he drunk sent him to the gate

That shocked Trinidad

Those seven skeletons that the workmen found in that yard

In Saint James the population went wild

When in the savanna they found a child

The hair was auburn and complexion pink

Which placed the watchman in a mood to think

“How can a mother despise and scorn

A little angel that she has born?”

That was more sad

Than the seven skeletons that the workmen found in that yard

A lorry was speeding to Port of Spain

When it knocked down the cyclist into the drain

It was going as fast as the lightning flash

When the cyclist received the lash

The mother cried out in sorrows and pain

I am not going to see my boy-child again

That is more sad

Than the seven skeletons that the workmen found in that yard

While the workmen they were digging the ground

They bring in skulls all human beings they found

Feet together and head east and west

Number five was a watchman among the rest

Number six had the hands and the feet on the chest

And number seven the mysterious guest

That shocked Trinidad

Those seven skeletons that the workmen found in that yard



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Credit: thanks to Pete for this one.