Tupelo
Cave Nick

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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


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Lyrics by Cave Nick

  (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World   A Dead Song   All The Pretty Little Horses   All The Pretty Little Horsies   All Tomorrow's Parties   And No More Shall We Part   Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?   Avalanche   Babe, I Got You Bad   Big-Jesus-Trash-Can   Black Betty (Nick Cave Version)   Black Betty (traditional version)   Blast Off   Blind Lemon Jefferson   Blue Bird   Brompton Oratory   Brother, My Cup Is Empty   By The Time I Get To Phoenix   Cabin Fever!   Capers   Cassiel's Song   Christina the Astonishing   Cindy   City of Refuge   Crow Jane   Cry   Darker With the Day   Dead Joe   Deanna   Death Is Not The End   Do You Love Me? (Part 2)   Dumb Europe   Far From Me   Faraway, So Close!   Fears of Gun   Figure of Fun   Foi Na Cruz   From Her To Eternity   God Is in the House   God's Hotel   Green Eyes   Grief Came Riding   Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)   Happy Birthday   Hard On For Love   Henry Lee (Nick Cave version)   Hey Joe   Ho-ho   I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour)   I Had A Dream, Joe   I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condit   I Let Love In   Idiot Prayer   Into My Arms   Jack the Ripper   Jack's Shadow   John Finn's Wife   Just You and Me   Katy Cruel (traditional version)   King Ink   Kiss Me Black   Lament   Lay Me Low   Little Empty Boat   Long Black Veil   Long Time Man   Long Time Man (Nick Cave version)   Love Letter   Lovely Creature   Lucy   Mister Frog Went A-Courting   Mojo   New Morning   O'Malley's Bar   Oh My Lord   Oh, Happy Day   Oxford Tragedy (Traditional version )   Papa Won't Leave You, Henry   PATRIPASSIAN   Plain Gold Ring   Pleasure Is The Boss   Rainy Night In Soho   Release the Bats   Riddle House (Howard)   Right Now I'm A-roaming   Rye Whiskey   Rye Whiskey (tranditonal version)   Sad Dark Eyes   Sail Away   Saint Huck   Scum   She Fell Away   Shivers (Howard)   Six Inch Gold Blade   Sleeping Analeah   Song Of Joy   Sonny's Burning   Sorrow's Child   Stagalee   Stow-a-way   Straight To You   Stranger than Kindness   Swampland   Sweetheart Come   The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane   The Big Hurt   The Carnival Is Over   The Carny   The Good Hun   The Good Son   The Good Son (Nick Cave Version)   The Kindness Of Strangers   The Loom of the Land   The Moon Is In The Gutter   The Ship Song   The Singer   The Six Strings That Drew Blood   The Sorrowful Wife   The Sweetest Embrace   The Weeping Song   The Willow Garden   The Witness Song   There Is a Kingdom   Thirsty Dog   Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum   To Be By Your Side   Tower Of Song   Train Long-Suffering   Truck Love   Tupelo Blues   Up Jumped The Devil   Viviane   Wade In The Water   Wanted Man   Watching Alice   Well Of Misery   West Country Girl   What A Wonderful World   When I First Came To Town   Where The Action Is   Where The Wild Roses Grow   Wild World   Wings Off Flies   Yard   Young Hunting (tranditional version)   Your Funeral... My Trial

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