Tupelo - Intellectual

[Intro: Mikee Goodman]

(lyricless singing)

[Verse 1: Mikee Goodman]

Look a-yonder, look a-yonder

Look a-yonder, a big black cloud comes!

Yes, a big black cloud comes

Come to the Tupelo, come to the 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, and sucked-a the damn thing dry

[Chorus 1: Mikee Goodman, Justin Hill]

Tupelo-o!

Oh, Tupelo

In a valley hides a town called Tupelo

[Verse 2: Mikee Goodman]

Distant thunder rumbles, distant thunder rumble

Rumble hungry like the Beast, the Beast it cometh, cometh down

The Beast it cometh, cometh down, the Beast it cometh, cometh down

Wow-oh-oh, oh Tupelo bound

[Chorus 2: Mikee Goodman, Justin Hill]

Tupelo-o!

Oh, Tupelo

The Beast it cometh, Tupelo bound

[Verse 3: Mikee Goodman]

Why the hen won't lay no egg, can't get that cock to crow

The horse is spooked & crazy, oh God help a-Tupelo

God help a-Tupelo, god help a-Tupelo

Oh God help the Tupelo

You can say these streets are rivers, you call these rivers streets

You can tell yourself you're dreamin' buddy, but no sleep runs this deep, no!

No sleep runs this deep, no sleep 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 the Tupelo

God help a-Tupelo

[Verse 4: Mikee Goodman]

Oh, go to sleep little children, the sandman's on his way

Go to sleep little children, the sandman's in 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!

[Breakdown: Mikee Goodman]

The sandman's mud!

And the black rain come down

The black rain come down

Black rain come down

Water, water everywhere

Where 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

[Chorus 3: Mikee Goodman, Justin Hill]

Tupelo-o!

Oh, Tupelo

Until The King is born in Tupelo

[Verse 5: Mikee Goodman]

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

[Chorus 4: Mikee Goodman, Justin Hill]

Tupelo-o! (Yeah! Yeah!)

Hey, Tupelo!

With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw

[Verse 6: Mikee Goodman]

Well Saturday gives what Sunday steals

And a child is born on his brothers heels

Come Sunday morn the first-born dead

In a shoebox tied with a ribbon red

[Chorus 5: Mikee Goodman, Justin Hill]

Tupelo-o! (Yeah!)

Oh, Tupelo

In a shoe box buried with a ribbon red

[Verse 7: Mikee Goodman]

Mama, rock you lil' one slow

Mama, rock your baby

Mama, rock you lil' one slow

Mama, rock your baby

Mama, rock you lil' one slow

Mama, rock your baby

Til the King is a-born in a-Tupelo

Mama, rock you lil' one slow

Mother, rock your baby

Mother, rock you lil' one slow

Mother, rock your baby

Til the King is a-born in a-Tupelo

Til the King is a-born in a-Tupelo!

[Outro: Mikee Goodman, Justin Hill]

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!)

Yeah, Tupelo!

He carried the burden outta Tupelo!

Tupelo-o!

Yeah, Tupelo

You will reap just what you sow!