Fm
Look yonder! Look yonder!
Look yonder! A big black cloud come!
A big black cloud come!
Yeah come to Tupelo, Come to Tupelo


Fm
Yonder on the horizon
Yonder on the horizon
Stopped at the mighty river
Stopped at the mighty river and
Sucked the damn thing dry
Tupelo-o-o, O Tupelo
In a valley hides a town called Tupelo


Fm
Distant thunder rumble. Distant thunder rumble
Rumble hungry like the Beast
The Beast it cometh, cometh down
The Beast it cometh, cometh down
Woah woah woahhh

                           D#
Tupelo bound. Tupelo-o-o. Yeah Tupelo
                           Fm
The Beast it cometh, Tupelo bound


Fm
Why the hen won't lay no egg
Can't get that cock to crow
The nag is spooked and crazier
Oh God help Tupelo! Oh God help Tupelo!
Oh God help Tupelo! Oh God help Tupelo!


Fm
You can say these streets are rivers
You can call these rivers streets
You can tell yourself you're dreaming buddy
But no sleep runs this deep
No! No sleep runs this deep
Women at their windows
Rain crashing on the pane
Writing in the frost
Tupelo's shame. Tupelo's shame
Oh God help Tupelo! Oh God help Tupelo!


Fm
Oh go to sleep little children
The sandmans on his way
Oh go to sleep little children
The sandmans in his way
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
They listen to the beating of their blood
The sandman's mud!
The sandman's mud!
And the black rain come down
The black rain come down
The black rain come down
Water water everywhere
Where no bird can fly no fish can swim
Where no bird can fly no fish can swim
No fish can swim
Until The King is born!
Until The King is born!
                   D#
In Tupelo! Tupelo-o-o!
                        Fm
Til The King is born in Tupelo!


Fm
In a clapboard shack with a roof of tin
Where the rain came down and leaked within
Young mother frozen on a concrete floor                                       
With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw
                  D#
Tupelo-o-o! Oh Tupelo!
                                      Fm
With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw



Fm
Saturday gives what Sunday steals
And a child is born at a brothers' heels
Come Sunday morning the firstborn dead
In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of red
                 D#
Tupelo-o-o! Hey Tupelo! 
                                      Fm
In a shoebox buried with a ribbon of red


Fm
Oh the mama rock you little one slow
Mama rock your baby
Mama rock your little one slow
God help Tupelo! God help Tupelo!
Mama rock your little one slow
The little one will walk on Tupelo
The little one will walk on Tupelo
Black rain come down, Black rain come down
             D#
Tupelo-o-o! Yeah Tupelo!
                 Fm
And carry the burden of Tupelo
             D#
Tupelo-o-o! Oh Tupelo! Yeah!
                      Fm
The King will walk on Tupelo!
            D#
Tupelo-o-o! Oh Tupelo!
                             Fm
He carried the burden out of Tupelo!
             D#
Tupelo-o-o! Hey Tupelo!
                     Fm
You will reap just what you sow