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On a Date With Manuela

by Ghoulsby

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1.
Manuela 01:46
She died before her very first dance Out there in the field by the plowman's hand She fell to the earth and let out her last gasp Saying, This ain't gonna stop me from going to my first dance She crawled along Rt. 96, Blood all over her long white dress, The moonlight on her cold white skin, Saying, This ain't gonna stop me from going to my first dance When she got there the room was filled With lots of dancing little boys and girls When they say here they stared, and they sang, Manuela, Manuela, what happened to you? Manuela, Manuela, what did they do? And she danced...
2.
Kentucky 01:36
I was born in a Kentucky field to a Kentucky woman and a dog They clipped my brother off of my shoulder and they threw him out to the hogs Let them go, let them drown... I left home for the big city and found a place in the ghetto I heard my brother calling out to me saying come back to the meadow Let them go, let them drown...
3.
Wampir 01:50
The alleyways are all ours We'll head out to the moonlight Never go out to the sunlight The hours are precious The moonlight against us Sometimes it's all a dream The world has left us a haunted expression and a sense of disbelief The treasure's ours to keep Never throw out what you might want Never keep what you don't like The hours are precious...
4.
Chase all the bad ghosts away I'll bring the good Hide all the mirrors away You look like you should I've been so down, ghouls all around, where has my love gone? Take all the violence away And we'll sleep sound We'll make a bed of hay Or sleep underground I've been so down, ghouls all around, where has my love gone?
5.
The wooden woman has jumped from the boat She's headed out to cleaner shores Where's she's gone, no one can say Things disappear, all of the time... Things disappear, but not my love The chimney sweeper has fallen down the chute All that's left are his boots Where he's gone, no one can know Things disappear, all of the time... The butcher's wife has cut off her nose She was tired of smelling his bloody clothes Where it's gone, no one can know... Things disappear all of the time...
6.
Luddite 02:31
From the bottom of the bottle you can look up and see what you've got I've got one cow I'll slaughter and one I'll let walk off Gone are the days of real love Gone are the times of comfort We will never be free from this technology It knows just what we need In the middle of the forrest you can look around and see what you want I've got some limbs I need and the others I'll just chop off Gone are the days of real love... There's someone in the yard, grab the shotgun off the wall, and aim steadily, aim steadily love
7.
Let's take a nice stroll out there in the moonlit meadow Take a left turn you'll be out there by the crows Scabs are comin' off, scabs are comin' off, scabs are comin' off Take a right turn you'll be out there with the thorns I sure as goddamn don't need a new name A little paint goes a long long way You can call me whatever you may Scabs are comin' off, scabs are comin' off, scabs are comin' off
8.
End 01:53
The farmer's arm has harmed the land Now everyone will starve again Now everyone will turn against... You take all you want, the more you give the less you've got The governor's called for martial law Now everything will wash away and there will be nothing to take its place You take all you want, the more you give the less you've got You take all you want, the longer you live the less time you've got
9.
Instead I'll eat hay and horseshit all day But still I can dream of more... When will the meek get to eat? When will the meek eat the earth? There's milk in the goat but it ain't in my throat If I catch him I'll kill him for sure When will the meek get to eat? When will the meek eat to earth?

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On a Date With Manuela is the story of a man from a Mexican farming community. He is born with a conjoined twin who is immediately cut off and thrown out into the farmland. The man moves to the city in an attempt to escape and forget his upbringing.

The removed twin, hideously deformed, grows up in the family barn, living off of hay and horseshit, longing for a normal life. He is tragically alone until he meets Manuela, the ghost of a thirteen-year-old girl who had been killed by a jealous plowhand.

The brother who moved to the city meets several ghoulish characters, becomes a drunk, and then disillusioned and paranoid of rampant crime and of technology, returns to the farm.

The first night he returns he finds Manuela in the barn and kills her for good, destroying his brother’s only chance of love.

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released September 5, 2012

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Ghoulsby Chicago, Illinois

Ghoulsby is Patrick Vincent Welsh, author of the collection of short stories Hard Times Galore and the novel Before Horses Were Extinct.
patrickvincentwelsh@gmail.com

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