Lyrics
[Verse 1] Fourteen thousand
Pages of pain
Ink turns to blood on the cane
Lincs man
Land surveyor
Looking for luck
Sugar and salt
Westmoreland heat
He sits in the seat
Overseer
Evil
Watching the mill
Black spirits they try to kill
[Chorus] Derby's Dose
Derby's Dose
Bitter and foul in the mouth
Derby's Dose
Derby's Dose
Wickedness ruling the South
Derby's Dose
Derby's Dose
[Verse 2] TT
On the skin
Metal and fire
Burning a sin
He took them in the boiling house
He took them in the field
Three thousand crimes
Never did he yield
Phibbah
Poor soul
Congo Sam's head on a pole
Rotting
Silent
Warnings for the weary
Mercury pills
Making them ill
[Chorus] Derby's Dose
Derby's Dose
Bitter and foul in the mouth
Derby's Dose
Derby's Dose
Wickedness ruling the South
Derby's Dose
Derby's Dose
[Bridge] He wrote it all down
He wrote it all down
He wrote it all down
No shame in the script
No soul in the crypt
Salt and lime
Bird pepper time
Gagged and bound
Face in the ground
The master is a monster
The master is a ghost
[Verse 3] Breadnut Island
Livestock and bone
Laughter and groans
Justice of the Peace
May the torment never cease
Sickness in the blood
Syphilis and mud
One hundred women
None of them free
A sociopath's legacy
Tacky's War
Knocking at the door
He sleeps with a gun
Waiting for the sun
[Chorus] Derby's Dose
Derby's Dose
Bitter and foul in the mouth
Derby's Dose
Derby's Dose
Wickedness ruling the South
Derby's Dose
Derby's Dose
[Outro] Fourteen thousand pages
Thistlewood
Thistlewood
History remembers
The diary burns
But the truth remains
Wicked man
Wicked man
Derby's Dose