Picking the Ballad's Bones by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Author:Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ghosts, demon, fantasy, paranormal, devil, devils, demons, music, ghost, saga, songs, musician, musicians, gypsy shadow, ballad, folk song, banjo, elizabeth ann scarborough, songkiller, folk singer, folk singers, song killer
Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing

PART II

THE BORDERLANDS

CHAPTER 17

Willie had hoped that the Debauchery Devil's fondness for him might let him end up in his favorite kind of ballads—that is, the bawdy kind. But as the kitchen at the cottage disappeared, everything was blurry for a while but a song he remembered Buffy St. Marie once singing: "The Lyke-Wake Dirge."

"If ever thou gavest hosen and shoen

Every night and a'

Sit thee down and put them on.

And Christ receive thy soul."

He remembered those words without really knowing what they meant except what you had done for or to people in life was supposed to be yours in death. For better or for worse. The Golden Rule and all that. God, was this a trick and he was in hell and hell was one long hard-shell Baptist fire and brimstone sermon?

No. A path opened in the haze around him and he saw a field of grass hedged with yellow broom all around and a pretty girl and a handsome devil of a guy pulling up some greenery in a slow and significant way. He followed the path to the couple, took a step, and joined them, blending . . .

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