Tupelo
Looka yonder! Looka yonder!
A big black cloud come!
O comes to Tupleo. Comes to Tupleo
Yonder on the horizon
Stopped at the mighty river and
Sucked the damn thing dry
Tupleo-o-o, O Tupleo.
In a valley hides a town called Tupelo.
Distant thunder rumble
Rumble hungry like the Beast
The Beast it cometh, cometh down
Wo wo wo-o-o, Tupelo bound
Tupleo-o-o, yeah Tueplo
The Beast it cometh, Tupleo bound.
Why the hen won't lay no egg
Can't get that crock to crow
The nag is spooked and crazy
O God help Tueplo, O God help Tupelo!
Ya can say these streets are rivers
Ya can call these rivers streets
Ya can tell yaself ya dreaming buddy
But no sleep runs this deep.
Women at their windows,
Rain crashing on the pane
Writing in the frost Tupelo's shame
O God help Tupleo! O God help Tupelo!
O go to sleep lil children,
The sandman's on his way
But the lil children know,
They listen to the beating of their blood
They listen to the beating of their blood
The sandman's mud!
And the black rain come down.
Water water everywhere
Where no bird can fly no fish can swim
No fish can swim Until the King is born!
In Tupelo! Tupleo-o-o!
Till the King is born in Tupelo!
In a clap-board shack with a roof of tin
Where the rain came down and leaked within
A young mother frozen on a concrete floor
With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw
Tupelo-o-o! O Tueplo!
With a bundle and a box and a cradle of straw.
Well Saturday gives what Sunday steals
And a child is born on his brother's heels
Come Sunday morn the first-born's dead
In a shoe-box tied with a ribbon of red
Tupleo-o-o! Hey Tupleo!
In a shoe-box tied with a ribbon of red.
O mama rock your lil one slow,
O ma-ma rock your baby.
O ma-ma rock your lil one slow
O God help Tueplo! O God help Tupelo!
Mama rock your lil one slow
The lil one will walk on Tupleo
Tupleo-o-o! Yeah Tupelo!
And carry the burden of Tupelo
Tueplo-o-o! O Tupleo!
Yeah! The King will walk on Tupelo
Tueplo-o-o! Tueplo!
He carried the burden outa Tupelo!
Tupeolo-o-o! Hey Tupelo!
You will reap just what you sow.
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