Tupelo lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : Tupelo
 


Looka yonder! Looka yonder!
Looka yonder! A
big black cloud come!
A big black cloud
come!
O comes to Tupelo. Comes to
Tupelo


Yonder on the horizon
Yonder
on the horizon
Stopped at the mighty
river
Stopped at the mighty river
and
Sucked the damn thing dry
Tupelo-o-o, O
Tupelo
In a valley hides a town called
Tupelo


Distant thunder rumble. Distant
thunder rumble
Rumble hungry like the
Beast
The Beast it cometh, cometh down
The
Beast it cometh, cometh down
Wo wo
wo-o-o
Tupelo bound. Tupelo-o-o. Yeah
Tupelo
The Beast it cometh, Tupelo
bound


Why the hen won't lay no
egg
Can't get that cock to crow
The nag is
spooked and crazy
O God help Tupelo! O God
help Tupelo!
O God help Tupelo! O God help
Tupelo!


Ya can say these streets are
rivers
Ya can call these rivers streets
Ya
can tell ya self ya dreaming buddy
But no
sleep runs this deep
No! No sleep runs this
deep
No sleep runs this deep
Women at their
windows
Rain crashing on the pane
Writing
in the frost
Tupelos' shame. Tupelo's
shame
O God help Tupelo! O God help
Tupelo!


O go to sleep lil
children
The sandmans on his way
O go to
sleep lil children
The sandmans in his
way
But the lil children know
They listen
to the beating of their blood
listen to the
beating of their blood
listen to the beating
of their blood
listen to the beating of their
blood
They listen to the beating of their
blood
The sandman's mud!
The sandman's
mud!
And the black rain come down
the black
rain come down
the black rain come
down
Water water everywhere
Where no bird
can fly no fish can swim
Where no bird can fly
no fish can swim
No fish can swim
Until The
King is born!
Until The King is born!
In
Tupelo! Tupelo-o-o!
Til 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 Tupelo!
With
a bottle and a box and a cradle of
straw


Well Saturday gives what Sunday
steals
And a child is born on his brothers
heels
Come Sunday morn the first-born
dead
In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of
red
Tupelo-o-o! Hey Tupelo!
In a shoebox
buried with a ribbon of red


O ma-ma
rock you lil' one slow
O ma-ma rock your
baby
O ma-ma rock your lil' one slow
O God
help Tupelo! O God help Tupelo!
Mama rock your
lil' one slow
The lil one will walk on
Tupelo
The lil one will walk on
Tupelo
Black rain come down, Black rain come
down
Tupelo-o-o! Yeah Tupelo!
And carry the
burden of Tupelo
Tupelo-o-o! O Tupelo!
Yeah!
The King will walk on
Tupelo!
Tupelo-o-o! O Tupelo!
He carried
the burden outa Tupelo!
Tupelo-o-o! Hey
Tupelo! [Repeat]
You will reap just what you
sow