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SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS lyrics : "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard"

Coming on the night train
With an arm full of box cars
On the wings of a magpie

Cross a hooligan night
Busted up a chifforobe
Way out by the cocomo

Cooked up a mess a mulligan
And got into a fight


Whistlin' past the graveyard
Steppin' on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubbard

Papa one eyes jack

You probably seen me sleepin'

Out by the railroad tracks
Ask the prince of darkness
About all the smoke

Come from the stack
Sometimes I kill a jackal
And suck out all the blood

Steal myself a station-wagon
Drivin' through the mud


Whistlin' past the graveyard
Steppin' on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubbard

Papa one eyed jack

I know you've seen my headlights

And the honkin' of my horn
I'm callin' out my bloodhounds
Chase the devil out the corn

Last night I chugged the Mississippi
Now it's dry as a bone
I was born in a taxi cab

I ain't never goin' home

Whistlin' past the graveyard

Steppin' on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubbard
Papa one eyed jack


My eyes have seen the glory
Of the drainin' of the ditch

I'm comin' to baton rouge
To find myself a witch
I'm gonna switch me up a

Couple of 'em every time it rains
You gotta see a locomotive
Probably thinkin' it's a train


Whistlin' past the graveyard
Steppin' on a crack

I'm a mean motherhubbard
Papa one eyed jack


What you think is sunshine
Is just a twinkle in my eye
I got a ring around my fingers

Called the 4th of July
When I get lonesome
And a tear falls from my check

There's gonna be an ocean in
The middle of the week


Whistlin' past the graveyard
Steppin' on a crack
Mean motherhubbard

Papa one eyed jack

I come in on the night train

With an arm full of box cars
On the wings of a magpie
Cross a hooligan night

I'm gonna tear off a rainbow
And wear it for a tie
I never told the truth
So honey how can I tell a lie


Whistlin' past the graveyard
Steppin' on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubbard
Papa one eyed jack

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