Lyrics Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard.lrc Tom Waits
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[ar: Tom Waits]
[al: Blue Valentine]
[ti: Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard]
[length: 03:18]
[00:12.62]I come in on a night train
[00:13.50]With an arm full of box cars
[00:15.39]On the wings of a magpie
[00:18.06]Cross a hooligan night
[00:18.96]I busted up a chifforobe
[00:21.74]Way out by the cocomo
[00:23.51]Cooked up a mess a mulligan
[00:25.37]And got into a fight
[00:27.21]Whistlin’ past the graveyard
[00:29.12]Steppin’ on a crack
[00:31.64]A mean mother hubbard papa one eyed jack
[00:34.94]You probably seen me sleepin’
[00:37.31]Out by the railroad tracks
[00:38.25]Go on and ask the Prince Of Darkness
[00:40.18]What about all that smoke
[00:41.13]Come from the stack
[00:42.16]Sometimes I kill myself a jackel
[00:43.95]Suck out all the blood
[00:46.69]Steal myself a stationwagon
[00:48.52]Drivin’ through the mud
[00:50.36]I want to whistlin’ past the graveyard
[00:52.17]Steppin’ on a crack
[00:53.95]I’m mean mother hubbard papa one eyed jack
[00:57.66]I know you seen my headlights
[00:59.40]And the honkin’ of my horn
[01:01.47]I’m callin’ out my bloodhounds
[01:03.33]Chase the devil through the corn
[01:05.10]Last night I chugged the Mississippi
[01:07.07]Now that suckers dry as a bone
[01:09.06]I’m born in a taxi cab
[01:11.72]I’m never comin’ home
[01:13.50]Whistlin’ past the graveyard
[01:15.35]Steppin’ on a crack
[01:17.11]I’m mean mother hubbard papa one eyed jack
[01:20.88]My eyes have seen the glory
[01:22.61]Of the drainin’ of the ditch
[01:24.46]I only come to Baton Rouge
[01:26.28]To find myself a witch
[01:28.29]I’m-ona snatch me up a
[01:30.07]Couple of ’em every time it rains
[01:33.00]You see a locomotive
[01:34.23]Probably thinkin’ its a train
[01:36.81]Whistlin’ past the graveyard
[01:38.31]Steppin’ on a crack
[01:40.18]I’m a mean mother hubbard papa one eyed jack
[01:43.70]What you think is the sunshine
[01:45.55]Is just a twinkle in my eye
[01:47.35]That ring around my finger
[01:49.15]Called the 4th of July
[01:51.15]When I get a little bit lonesome
[01:53.98]And a tear falls from my check
[01:55.72]There’s gonna be an ocean in
[01:57.52]The middle of the week
[01:59.33]Whistlin’ past the graveyard
[02:01.18]Steppin’ on a crack
[02:02.93]I’m mean mother hubbard papa one eyed jack
[02:06.70]I come into town on a night train
[02:08.52]Arm full of box cars
[02:10.43]On the wings of a magpie
[02:12.38]Cross a hooligan night
[02:14.18]I’m gona tear me off a rainbow
[02:16.05]And wear it for a tie
[02:18.19]I never told the truth
[02:20.03]So I can never tell a lie
[02:21.87]Whistlin’ past the graveyard
[02:23.76]Steppin’ on a crack
[02:25.65]A mean mother hubbard papa one eyed Jack
[02:30.23]Year of Release: 1978