Please Mr. Gravedigger Lyrics

Lyric discussion by imrazor 

Cover art for Please Mr. Gravedigger lyrics by David Bowie

The narrator, wrestling with guilt, makes a snap decision to kill the gravedigger when he catches himself inadvertently confessing to the murder. But does he have something else to confess to? I know this isn't a concept album but is it significant that this is on the same LP-side as "Little Bombardier"? Maybe the narrator is Little Frankie again - in which case those "two gentlemen" were right about him after all - and then some!

The murderer of a young girl is threatening the gravedigger who suspects him. The locket was possibly a trophy kept by the murderer and the gravedigger found it.

@imrazor hmmmmmm....yes but the murderer could very well be the Bombadier.....very interesting concept...perhaps he wasn't as sad a bloke as i first thought....war made him very evil....