{"id":3487,"date":"2025-12-08T18:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughmungus.art\/1\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:15:25","slug":"blind-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughmungus.art\/1\/blind-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blind Verdict is a rock song about justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/hughmungus.art\/1\/wp-content\/plugins\/stream-tracker\/media.php?id=c3d73627339432dff5e07d783364e31e\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blind Verdict (Rock) - Hugh Mungus\u2122<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hughmungus.art\/1\/blind-verdict-hugh-mungus\/\">Download MP3 ($1.00\/USD, Zip File)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-0e47273b wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They dragged him through the dust with a rope \u2018round his neck<br>Nine shadows on horseback, no mercy, no check<br>Left him for the buzzards, cut loose from the tree<br>But the dead don\u2019t stay buried when justice ain\u2019t free<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, justice ain\u2019t free!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wind keeps on howling through the cottonwood leaves<br>A man learns the difference \u2018tween law and what he believes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hang \u2018em high, let the rope sing its song<br>When the good and the guilty both swing before long<br>In the court of the desert, the verdict is blind<br>Hang \u2018em high, till nobody knows wrong from right<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, wrong from right!<br>Oh, wrong from right!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He rides with a star that still bleeds through the shirt<br>Carries nine names carved deep where the memory hurts<br>Every trigger he pulls is a question of grace<br>Every grave that he digs stares him dead in the face<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah, dead in the face!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hang \u2018em high, though the gallows grow tall<br>One man\u2019s retribution becomes another man\u2019s fall<br>The judge and the judged wear the same coat of dust<br>Hang \u2018em high, till the righteous forget who to trust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, forget who to trust!<br>Yeah, forget who to trust!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of the rope there\u2019s no winner in sight<br>Just widows and orphans and crows in the night<br>He drops the last knot, turns his back on the tree<br>Some debts can\u2019t be settled by you or by me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By you or by me!<br>By you or by me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hang \u2018em high, but the sky don\u2019t forgive<br>When vengeance is done, nobody left to live<br>The wind takes the echo, the desert stays wide<br>We all hang high on the same lonely ride<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, Hang \u2018em high! 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