Looka' yonder (x5)

A big black cloud comes!
Yes, a big black cloud comes
Come to Tupelo
Come 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,
Sucked the damn thing dry

Tupelo - O!
Oh, Tupelo
In a valley hides a town called Tupelo

Distant thunder rumbles,
Distant thunder rumble
Rumble hungry like the beast,
The best it cometh, cometh down,
The best it cometh, cometh down,
The best it cometh, cometh down
Wow - Wo - Wo, Tupelo bound

Tupelo - O!
Oh, Tupelo
The beast it cometh, Tupelo bound

Why the hen won't lay no eggs, can't get that cock to crow,
The horse is spooked & crazy, oh God help Tupelo
God help Tupelo,
God help Tupelo,
Oh God help Tupelo

Ya' can say these streets are rivers,
Ya' can call these rivers streets,
You can tell yaself' ya' dreamin' buddy, but no sleep runs this deep,
No!
No sleep runs this deep,
No sleeps runs this deep
Women at their windows, rain crashing on the pane
Writing in the frost, Tupelo's shame, Tupelo's shame,
Tupelo's shame
God help Tupelo
God help Tupelo
God help Tupelo
God help Tupelo

Oh, go to sleep little children,
The sandman's on his way,
Go to sleep little children,
The sandman's on his way
But the little children know,
But the little 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!

The sandman's mud!
The sandman's mud!
The sandman's mud!
The sandman's mud!

And black rain come down,
The black rain come down,
Black rain come down
Water, water everywhere,
Water, water everywhere
No bird can fly, no fish can swim,
No bird can fly, no fish can swim,
No fish can swim,
Until the king is born
Until the king is born
Until the king is born!

Tupelo - O!
Oh Tupelo,
Until 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!
Yeah! Yeah!
Hey, Tupelo
With a bundle and a box and a cradle of straw

Well, Saturday gives what Sunday steals,
A child is born of his brothers heels
Come Sunday morning, first born dead,
In a shoe-box tied with a ribbon red

Tupelo - O!
Yeah, Oh Tupelo!
In a shoebox tied with a ribbon red

Mama, rock your lil' one slow,
Mama, rock your baby
Mama, rock your lil' one slow,
Mama, rock your baby
Mama, rock your baby
Mama, rock your baby
Mama, rock your lil' one slow,
Mama, rock your baby
Mama, rock your baby
Mama, rock your baby
Til' the king is born in Tupelo
Til' the king is born in Tupelo
Til' the king is born in Tupelo
Mama, rock your lil' one slow!
Mama, rock your baby!
Mama, rock your lil' one slow!
Mama, rock your baby!
Til' the king is born in Tupelo
Til' the king is born in Tupelo
Til' the king is born in Tupelo
Til' the king is born in Tupelo!

Tupelo - O!
Yeah! Yeah!
Tupelo, and carry the burden of Tupelo!
Tupelo - O!
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!
Tupelo, Tupelo, Tupelo, Tupelo
Yeah!
The king will walk on Tupelo!
Tupelo - O!
Yeah!
Oh, Tupelo!
He carried the burden out of Tupelo!
Tupelo - O!
Yeah, Tupelo!
You will reap just what you sow!