Sarah Jarosz ~Shankill Butchers~

This is a cover from Decemberists
But Seventeen-year-old Texas native Sarah Jarosz emerged on the scene about five years ago as someone to watch and then has a new debut album called "Song Up in Her Head"
I really love this song its soo eerie and edgy

Song~ Shankill Butchers
Artist~ Sarah Jarosz
Album~ Song Up in Her Head

Lyrics~

The Shankill butchers ride tonight
You better shut your windows tight
They're sharpening their cleavers and their knives
And taking all their whiskey by the pint
'Cause everybody knows
If you don't mind your mother's words
A wicked wind will blow
Your ribbons from your curls
Everybody moan, everybody shake,
The Shankill butchers wanna catch you
Awake

They used to be just like me and you
They used to be sweet little boys
But something went horribly askew
Now killing is their only source of joy
'Cause everybody knows...

If you don't mind your mother's words
A wicked wind will blow
Your ribbons from your curls
Everybody moan, everybody shake,
The Shankill butchers wanna catch you
Awake

The Shankill butchers on the rise
They're waiting till the dead of night
They're picking at their fingers with their knives
And wiping off their cleavers on their thighs
'Cause everybody knows...

If you don't mind your mother's words
A wicked wind will blow
Your ribbons from your curls
Everybody moan, everybody shake,
The Shankill butchers wanna catch you
The Shankill butchers wanna cut you
The Shankill butchers wanna catch you
Awake
Awake
Awake
Awake

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sarah
• Jarosz
• Shankill
• Butchers
• Decemberists
• Cover
• Song
• Up
• in
• Her
• Head

[SleepDeprivedApe]

Look, you can jam out to a song that talks about niggas and bitches and suckin dick, but someone makes a song about a tradgedy that happened over 30 years ago and portrays the legend status it has aquired, you flip shit. Grow some balls, appriciate the music for what it is, dont make it out to be something it isn't, and move on.

[koga711]

She does The Decemberists justice (in my opinion)

[FIntyMAcC10]

Ireland for the Irish, not for London or for Rome!!

[iluvtheusa2300]

U know this song is a little scary!! But I LOVE it!!! It's great!!

[jedigandhi]

@koga711 Frankly, she leaves 'em in the dust with this :)

[Darkknight9955]

she is one heck on an under rated singer..

[evacormac]

I like this version better than the original, just because her voice is more... mysterious.

[BecauseAlexWasBored]

I personally prefer the original , but I really like this version, too :)

[RandomChibiGirl]

While I like the Decemberists more, I prefer her version of this song.

[Thebluebridgetroll]

Good, she certainly does a good cover.

[Thebluebridgetroll]

@FIntyMAcC10 ain't that hypocritical lol. The original IRA? That did right for Ireland, it was a bunch of freedom fighters. The Provisional IRA? That's something else entirely as bad. In the 70's? The worry wasn't about a Islamic Extremist committing a suicide bombing, the worry was about a member of the Provisional IRA.

THERE'S a fecking HUGE difference.

[Gibbarish]

My favorite Decemberists song. This was a very beautiful cover.