Go son,
go down to the water
See the women weep ing there
Then go up in
to the mountains
The men they are
all weeping too
Father ,
why are all the women weeping?
They are weepin' for their man
And why are all the men
when they're weepin'
They are weepin' back
This is a weepin' song
A song in which to weep
While other men and women sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping
Come on!
Father, why are all the children weeping?
They are merely crying, son
Oh, all they hear are
crying father
The true weeping is yet to come
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While the men and women sleep
This is a weeping song, but I won't leave
This is a weeping song,
a song in which to weep
While all the men and women burst
This is a weakened song
But I won't be beaten down
Thank you
This next guy goes by many names,
Tim, Tim from the herd,
but tonight, here he is, Earthboy.
What's up, Sydney?
How you going?
That sounds good.
I would like to make a
special shout out
to my collaborator who helped me.
His name's Traxford.
He's in the audience tonight.
And when I got asked to join in
with these Nick Cave shows,
I thought, oh, fuck.
But He helped me.
He came together
and helped me put these
beats together.
Actually, when I say he helped me,
it was more like I sat around
on Twitter
while he wrote the beat here.
But every partnership
needs the yin and yang.
I would especially like to shout
out to Maricville,
which was where it was written.
We sat down in a room,
his two little kids were sleeping
next door. and I whispered this
we kept whispering
it over and over again
until we got it right
which is pretty
much the perfect preparation
for a full house at the Anmore
and this is called Oh Children.
I would like to introduce Alex and
Birdie Blackman
to come up here and join me with it.