The Jailer 

I'm close to tears but I won't plead

 Don't stand and smoke in front of me

 Don't stand and smoke in front of me

 Its not a matter of courtesy

You see this place has got me down

With all the smoke that's hangin' round

And all the tormentation sounds

and people singin' in a round

it brings me down

I've got my Job, what can I say?

Leading men is hot today

I've got to get my poems strait

And every day my music breaks

Every day I shut my eyes

And every day somebody cries

And every day a buzzard flies

And magic potions make you die

It makes my cry

For the rest of my life, o can't you see?

What the smell of smoke will do to me?

What a dirty thing reminding me

of all inhuman cruelties?

Don’t stand and smoke

I am the Jailer 

huh!

Famine 

Famine in the land

Rations for the gang

Hungry this time?

An end for the masters of the land

Daughter-- hold my hand

It's so cold today

Makes my soul so gray

It's the end of it

No more chores for you my son

Go free-- you aren't the only one

Set them all free

You got the keys

Set them all free...

The Jailer (reprise)  

...The locks are cracked

The deed is done

The prisoners gather in the sun

My heart is older

I am sad

But joy is choking all the land

The shadow's gone

The dream has fled

And no more water

No more bread

And now I am a freer man

And now I've done my life's demand

I am the jailer