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Preachin', Prayin', Singin'

Flatt & Scruggs

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs

1959

down on the public square

I was a stranger there intent upon my way
But when I saw the crowd, I had the urge to stay
I heard a welcome voice biddin' me

criminals no guillotin
To end the taint we torture thee and peel the skin
Confess your sins
On public squares we show your end

Iudex - Escalate the pain
Kill

1964
If you've got something to say
Better keep it to yourself in the public square
It's like looking into the future
You would say the past
The state

and so proud 
 Omologation is not my way
 Don't tell me that i look strange
 Cause i'm just different


I scream and i shout in a public 
 square
 And if

God Is Not a Secret

Newsboys

Take Me to Your Leader

1996

my savior when 
He hung inside the public square? 
Did not my silence put him there?

Oh, the bishop and the actress
Had a very bold affair
Or it would have been, if they were seen
Out in the public square
Instead it was in secret
They

McCafferty's Bib

They Might Be Giants

I Like Fun

2018

massing in public squares
And they're singing a note
That rises from low to high

With one hand they're holding up signs 
Of Bob Hope
In the other

Justify the Thrill

Blues Traveler

Straight on Till Morning

1997

represents
To ensure that he will die
Chase him from the public square
Or hang him from a tree
And tell his kind they best beware
Because he's different

Bootlegger's Boy

Old Crow Medicine Show

Carry Me Back

2012

Moonshine whiskey, 
I am a brave Bootlegger's son. 

Yeah I sold that corn, 
To the Circuit Judge, 
On the Public Square, 
To Mayor Trent, 
But I met

If your soap box were on the public square 
Would you say the quiet thoughts out loud

When you don't got your facade 
cnd your imaginary mob is gone

No Surrender

Stiff Little Fingers

Fly the Flags

1994

restored, to hell with what he's like
Our man sells us oil and petrol at a price that's fair
Our man kills collaborators in the Public Square

(Chorus)

I

The saddest summer of this year 
on the blue of the short rains

In the emptiness of public squares
people fall into the gloom of gray

The saddest

cities go to moral failure
Rivers and seas no longer exist
Devastation of many other cultures
A terrible place to be living

Bodies in rot in public square

like our inflation

A bullet in their head
Is the way to a better life
Like our chinese friends 
Do in public square

Population deceived by
Damned

be so awful bad
So I just keep thinking: without fog we might have had
Fun

Public square is getting crowdy
But nobody's saying "howdy"
Since the sky

changed nigga 
Dey bust'n shots on Public Square nigga 
Twenty two murders in a quarter year nigga 
We wasn't like dis as yung niggaz 
We came up wit da

runner, spitting missiles
With a double-sided axe, watch your back, I'm an asshole
Tar and feather you in the public square in your underwear
If a mother

children's tears sparkling


Verse 2 (Mike Dynamo)

Whether it’s the public square of the DMZ

Where mortar shells could fall and end everything 

Or whether

In the public square 
Its like an elevator straight down 
But when you look around 
You've never seen so much velvet 
So much gold
So much pelvis
Did

I had a dream
I kissed you in the public square (it was just a dream)
I had a dream
No one stopped and yelled or stared (it was just a dream)
I had

accountable so I veto the plea for clemency
In the public square execute the dictator
If anybody tries to stop it shoot the invader
Don't feud with the traitor

the public square
She calls out to the crowds along the main street
And to those in front of city hall
"You simpletons!" she cries
"How long will you go

the public square
Out manned and out gunned Charley didn't stand a prayer, but he showed up
With his pistols drawn
The Marshals gave Ol' Charley until

The wiles of Satan
We resist outright
Whoop him always
Cus we more than conquerors
Issuing faith commands -the key
Kokoro
We win wherever
Public square