Look yonder! Look yonder!
Look yonder! A big black cloud come!
Yonder on the horizon
Yonder on the horizon
Distant thunder rumble. Distant thunder rumble
Rumble hungry like the Beast
Tupelo bound. Tupelo-o-o. Yeah Tupelo
The Beast it cometh, Tupelo bound
Why the hen won't lay no egg
Can't get that cock to crow
You can say these streets are rivers
You can call these rivers streets
Oh go to sleep little children
The sandmans on his way
In Tupelo! Tupelo-o-o!
Til The King is born in Tupelo!
In a clapboard shack with a roof of tin
Where the rain came down and leaked within
Tupelo-o-o! Oh Tupelo!
With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw
Saturday gives what Sunday steals
And a child is born at a brothers' heels
Tupelo-o-o! Hey Tupelo!
In a shoebox buried with a ribbon of red
Oh the mama rock you little one slow
Mama rock your baby
Tupelo-o-o! Yeah Tupelo!
And carry the burden of Tupelo
Tupelo-o-o! Oh Tupelo! Yeah!
The King will walk on Tupelo!
Tupelo-o-o! Oh Tupelo!
He carried the burden out of Tupelo!
Tupelo-o-o! Hey Tupelo!
You will reap just what you sow