Whislin Past The Graveyard Lyrics by Tom Waits

Whislin Past The Graveyard Lyrics

    well i come in on a night train
    with an arm full of box cars
    on the wings of a magpie
    cross a hooligan night
    and i busted up a chifforobe
    way out by the cocomo
    cooked up a mess a mulligan
    and got into a fight

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    whistlin past the graveyard
    steppin on a crack
    i'm a mean motherhubbard
    papa one eyed jack

    you propably seen me sleepin
    out by the railroad tracks
    go on and ask the prince of darkness
    what about all thet smoke
    come from the stack
    sometimes i kill myself a jacket
    suck out all the blood
    steal myself a stationwagon
    drivin through the mud

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    i know you seen my headlights
    and the honkin of my horn
    i'm callin out my bloodhounds
    chase the devil through the corn
    last night i chugged the mississippi
    now that suckers dry as a bone
    born in a taxi cab
    i'm never comin home

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    my eyes have seen the glory
    of the draining of the ditch
    i only come to baton rouge
    to find myself a witch
    i'm-ona snatch me up a
    couple of em every time it rains
    you see a locomotive
    probably thinkin its a train

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    what you think is the sunshine
    is just a twinkle in my eye
    that ring around my fingers
    just the 4th of july
    when i get a little bit lonesome
    and a tear falls from my cheek
    theres gonna be an ocean in
    the middle of the week

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    i rode into town on a night train
    with an arm full of box cars
    on the wings of a magpie
    cross a hooligan night
    i'm-ona tear me off a rainbow
    and wear it for a tie
    i never told the truth
    so i can never tell a lie

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