You can take all the tea in china
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around the seven oceans

Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Shes an angel of the first degree

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee


You cant stop us on the road to freedom
You cant keep us cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite

Knights in armor bent on chivalry
Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Shes an angel of the first degree

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee


You cant stop us on the road to freedom
You cant stop us cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite

Knights in armor intent on chivalry
Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Shes an angel of the first degree

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee


You know shes alright
You know shes alright with me
Shes alright, shes alright (shes an angel)


You can take all the tea in china
Put it in a big brown bag for me

Sail it right around the seven oceans
Drop it smack dab in the middle of the deep blue sea
Because shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Shes an angel of the first degree
Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee


Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Shes an angel of the first degree

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like the honey, baby, from the bee
Shes my baby, you know shes alright.....


Theres a rose pressed inside a bible
That she reads on the balcony

Shes sweet in slumber and Ive got her number
For the beginning of the century.


Ill tell a tale of old manhattan
Adirondack bus to go
Standing waiting on my number

And my numbers gonna show.

I heard a tale of old manhattan

Ive never been there but I want to go
Standing waiting on my number
And my numbers gonna show.