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TOM WAITS lyrics : "Murder In The Red Barn"

There was a murder in the red barn
Murder in the red barn


The trees are bending over
The cows are lying down
The atumn's taking over

You can hear the buckshot hounds
The watchman said to Reba the loon
Was it pale at Manzanita

Or Blind Bob the raccoon?
Pin it on a drifter
They sleep beneath the bridge

One plays the violin
And sleeps inside a fridge
There was a murder in the red barn

A murder in the red barn

Someone's crying in the woods

Someone's burying all his clothes
Now Slam the Crank from Wheezer
Slept outside last night and froze

Road kill has its seasons
Just like anything
It's possums in the autumn

And it's farm cats in the spring
There was a murder in the red barn
A murder in the red barn


Now thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house
Or covet thy neighbor's wife

But for some
Murder is the only door through which they enter life


Now they surrounded the house
They smoke him out
They took him off in chains

The sky turned black and bruised
And we had months of heavy rains
Now the raven's nest in the rotted roof

Of Chenoweth's old place
And no one's asking Cal
About that scar upon his face

'Cause there's nothin' strange
About an axe with bloodstains in the barn


There's always some killin'
You got to do around the farm
A murder in the red barn

Murder in the red barn

Now the woods will never tell

What sleeps beneath the trees
Or what's buried 'neath a rock
Or hiding in the leaves

'Cause road kill has it's seasons
Just like anything
It's possums in the atumn

And it's farm cats in the spring
A murder in the red barn
A murder in the red barn


Now a lady can't do ntohin'
Without folks' tongues waggin'

Is this blood on the tree
Or is it autumn's red blaze
When the ground's soft for diggin'

ANd the rain will bring all this gloom
There's nothing wrong with a lady
Drinking alone in her room

But there was a murder in the red barn
A murder in the red barn

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