Oh my, oh my. What a wretched life. I was born on the day. That my poor mother died. . I was cut from her belly. With a Stanley knife. My daddy did a jig.
Did ya read about the flood?. Happened long time ago,. In Tupelo, Mississippi.. There were thousands o' lives,. Destroyed.. . It rained, it rained,. Both night and day..
(John Lee Hooker 1959). . A song which was a likely inspiration for Tupelo. Nick's song is also available.. . Tupelo Blues - John Lee Hooker (3:23) (from the album The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker, Riverside 1959). Recorded several more times, issued as Vee Jay single "Tupelo (Backwater Blues) / Dusty Road", June 1960; also on 1962 Vee Jay album "The Folklore of John Lee Hooker" as "Tupelo". Also issued a live recording from Newport Folk Festival in the early 60s..
Looka yonder, looka yonder. Looka yonder, a big black cloud come. . Yonder on the horizon. Yonder on the horizon. Stopped at the mighty river. Sucked the damn thing dry.
Truck love! Right here!. Truck love! Right now!. Bewitched by pure power. That's truck love!. In the gully of your choice. Truck love!. Jam-up on a leaping tree. Head on! Head first!.
In the name of pain. (In the name of pain and suffering). In the name of pain. (In the name of pain and suffering). . There comes a train. (There comes a train).
Well my friends are gone and my hair is gray. I ache in the places I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song.
Little Janie, she wakes up from a dream. A gun like a jawbone down the waistband of her jeans, oh yeah. Mr. Sandman he could recite today's lesson in his sleep.
(Cave / Coulais). . Across the oceans across the seas,. Over forests of blackened trees.. Through valleys so still we dare not breathe,. To be by your side..
We were called to the forest and we went down. A wind blew warm and eloquent. We were searching for the secrets of the universe. And we rounded up demons and forced them to tell us, what it all meant?.
I know you've heard it all before. I'm sorry for this three year war. For the setting up of camps and wire and trenches. . I'm sorry for the other night.
The wintergreen, the juniper, the cornflower and the chicory. All the words you said to me still vibrating in the air. The elm, the ash and the linden tree, the dark and deep, enchanted sea.
There is a town where I was born. Far, far away, across the sea. And in that town, oh, where I was born. I would dream, that one day I would leave and cross the sea.
Hey there sugar where ya gunna go?. I'm going downtown Daddy-O. What ya gunna do when you get there, girl?. I'm gunna get messed up in a God-Shaped Hole.
Just like a bird that sings up the sun. In a dawn so very dark. Such is my faith for you. Such is my faith. . All the world's darkness. Can't swallow up a single spark.
Oh yeah, yeah. Yes well, well, well. I took a walk down to the port. Where strangers meet and do consort. . All blinkered with desire. And a winter fog moved thickly on.
Down in the willow garden, me and my love did meet. And as we sat courting, my love fell off to sleep. I had a bottle of burgundy wine, my love, she did not know.
Go son, go down to the water. And see the women weeping there. Then go up into the mountains. The men, they are weeping too. . Father, why are all the women weeping?.
Tell me how long's the train been gone?. Tell me how long's the train been gone?. And was she there? And was she there?. Tell me how long's the train been gone?.
Our time is done my love. We've laid it all to waste. One thousand moonlit kisses. can't sweeten this bitter taste. My desire for you is endless. and I'll love you 'till we fall.