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Looka yonder! Looka yonder!
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Looka yonder! A big black cloud come!
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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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Yonder on the horizon
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Stopped at the mighty river
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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. Distant thunder rumble
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Rumble hungry like the Beast
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The Beast it cometh, cometh down
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The Beast it cometh, cometh down
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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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Can'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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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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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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listen to the beating of their blood
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listen to the beating of their blood
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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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the black rain come down
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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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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 buried 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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The lil one will walk on Tupelo
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Black rain come down, Black rain come down
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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! [Repeat]
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You will reap just what you sow
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Tupelo
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