Witch's Egg

When I turned 12 papa said

Little woman better get yourself a wife

'Cause you’re too mean for a man to clean up your life

And if she’s the devil, you know she’ll be your friend.

When I turned 13 I spat in my papa’s eye

Took off to find my man 'cause I couldn’t find a wife

And I spread-eagled in a lot of towns

I couldn’t find no man to lay me down

They were so busy a-cock-a-doodle-doo-in’

But they still couldn’t nail me down

So I grew up lonesome knowing there’d be no man

Or woman to get me going through this life

'Cause I was hatched out of a witch’s egg

Been doomed to fly high

Like a crane with no legs

I laid down with the devil and his side-kick mankind

But something called lovin’ made me hungry inside

So I went to the lord and I asked him for more

Than what this world could offer

I laid down with him and I had to grin

'Cause he was shyer than a flower

Now thanks to the lord I’ve been set free

My lover is the trade winds that take me out to sea

My life is like nobody else’s

There’s only one of me

'Cause I was hatched out of a witch’s egg

Been doomed to fly high

Like a crane with no legs.