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