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Looka yonderLooka yonderLooka yonderA big black cloud comeA big black cloud comeOh, comes to TupeloComes to TupeloYonder on the horizonYonder on the horizonStopped at the mighty ri...Read Full Lyrics

Stay by me, stay by meYou are the one, my only true loveThe butcherbird makes its noiseAnd it asks you to agreeWith its brutal nesting habitsAnd its pointless savageryNow, the nigh...Read Full Lyrics

One morn I awakenedA new sun was shiningThe sky was a KingdomAll covered in bloodThe moon and the starsWhere the troops that lay conqueredLike fruit left to witherPoor spiritual fo...Read Full Lyrics

As I sat sadly by her sideAt the window, through the glassShe stroked a kitten in her lapAnd we watched the world as it fell pastSoftly she spoke these words to meAnd with brand ne...Read Full Lyrics

Up those stone steps I climbHail this joyful day's returnInto its great shadowed vault I goHail the Pentecostal mornThe reading is from Luke 24Where Christ returns to his loved one...Read Full Lyrics

Take a little walk to the edge of townAnd go across the tracksWhere the viaduct loomsLike a bird of doomAs it shifts and cracksWhere secrets lie in the border firesIn the humming w...Read Full Lyrics

If I could sail a galleon ship, a long, lonely rider across the skySeek out mysteries while you sleepAnd treasures money cannot buyFor you know I see you everywhereA servan...Read Full Lyrics

Go son, go down to the waterAnd see the women weeping thereThen go up into the mountainsThe men, they are all weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping?They are all weeping...Read Full Lyrics

Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, I know you most of allYou've robbed my poor pockets of silver and goldAnd whiskey, you villain, you've been my down fallYou've cuffed and you've...Read Full Lyrics

They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bedWith a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her headOh poor Mary BellowsShe'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poorShe left her home in Arkansas...Read Full Lyrics