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Walpurgis [Early Version of "War Pigs"] • EP "The Peel Session" (1970)
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Original lyrics
3 translations
Walpurgis [Early Version of "War Pigs"] lyrics
Witches gather at black masses
Bodies burning in red ashes
On the hill the church in ruin
Is the scene of evil doings
It's a place for all bad sinners
Watch them eating dead rats' innards
I guess it's the same,
where ever you may go
Oh, Lord, yeah
Carry banners which denounce the Lord
See me rocking in my grave
See them anoint my head with dead rat's blood
See them stick the stake through me
Oh
Don't hold me back cause I've just gotta go
They've got a hold of my soul now
Lord's got my brain instinct with blood obscene1
Look in my eyes I'm there enough
Yeah
On the scene a priest appears
Sinners falling at his knees
Satan sends out funeral pyre
Casts the priest into the fire
It's the place for all bad sinners
Watch them eating dead rats' innards
I guess it's the same
whereever you may go
Oh, Lord, yeah
- 1. This line doesn't make much sense, and is unclear, so it could certainly be a mistranscription
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Comments
Note from original submission: Walpurgis is the original name of this song [War Pigs] - and it had totally different lyrics back then, but the same music. The only place where this version of the song is (legally) available is on the Ozzy "Ozzman Cometh" Greatest Hits CD.