I set out on Monday   The night was cold and vast   My brother slept   I left quite quietly   My father raged and raged   My mother wept      My life was like a river   All sucked into the ground   And then the hammer came down   Lord, the hammer came down      Many miles did I roam   Through the ice and through the snow   My horse died on the seventh day   I stumbled into a city   Where the people tried to kill me   And I ran in shame      Then I came upon a river   And I laid my saddle down   And then the hammer came down   Lord, the hammer came down      It knocked me to the ground   And I said, "Please, please   Take me back to my home ground"   Lord, the hammer came down      Now I've been made weak by visions   For many visions did I see   All through the night   On the seventh hour an angel came   With many snakes in all his hands   And I fled in fright      I pushed off into the river   And the waters came around   And then the hammer came down   Lord, the hammer came down      It did not make a sound   And I said, "Please, please   Take me back to my home ground"   Lord, the hammer came down      I was stuffed into the river   And the waters spelled around   And then the hammer came down   Lord, the hammer came down      It did not make a sound   And I said, "Please, please   Take me back to my home ground"   Lord, the hammer came down      It drove me around the ground   And I said, "Please, please   Take me back to my home town"   Lord, the hammer came down      And knocked him to the ground   And I got down on my knees   And I said, "Please, please   Take me back to my home town"   Lord, the hammer came down      It did not make a sound   And I said, "Please, please   Take me back to my home town"   Lord, the hammer came down