Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire - Fatal Flower Garden

Lyrics:It rained it poured
It rained so hard
Rained so hard all day
'Till all the boys in our school
Came out to talk and play
They tossed the ball
Again so high
Then again so low
Till it fell into a flower garden
Where no one's allowed to go
When a tipsy Gypsy lady
Dressed in yellow and green
Says come here come here
My pretty little boy
And get your ball again
No I won't come in
I shan't come in
Without my playmates all
I'm gonna get my father and tell him all about it
And then the tears shall fall
First she offered an apple sweet
Then a tangerine
Then she offered a diamond
That seemed to do the trick that enticed him in
She took him by the lily-white hand
And led him through the hall
She took him to an upper room
Where no one could hear him call
No not a soul
Bury the bible at my feet
The testament at my head
If my dear father should call for me
Tell him that I am dead
Bury the bible at my head
The testament at my feet
If my dear mother should call for me
Tell her that I'm asleep

[@livingdeaddollsjunky9543]

Faceless Neil brought me hear and this song is amazing

[@marko-gj1uj]

Faceless Neil brought me here.

[@maja328]

Same, I love Faceless Neil!

[@the9thanthology]

SAME!

[@StripedXKarma]

I've got the chills

[@patrickgeorge1441]

In 1928 the Neltone's Hawaiians first played this song about child murder....rough stuff lyrics

[@asylum431]

was Andrew Bird in the devils carnival

[@makawrld441]

So what's the song about?

[@acronolozki]

The song explains itself, i guess.

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[@loadbearingflask]

ain't that a bit racialist?

[@1j34u756n]

Yeah. It's totally racist. gipsys have been persecuted all over Europe for centuries. when I sing this song, I change it to a trippy hippy lady, if only because otherwise this song is so beautifully arranged that it would be a shame to write it off completely.

[@colinthomson5358]

loadbearingflask - The original song was about Jews. Look up Little Sir Hugh of Lincoln.
I guess Andrew Bird thought it was ok to sing about Gypsys but was too offensive to sing about Jews. Which is pretty funny.
It is also possible that he only knows of the song being about Gypsies as there are hundreds of versions of this song going back to the 18th Century.