| Coming on the night train
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| With an arm full of box cars
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| On the wings of a magpie, 'cross a hooligan night
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| Busted up a chifforobe
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| Way out by the cocomo
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| Cooked up a mess a mulligan and got into a fight
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| Whistlin' past the graveyard
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| Steppin' on a crack
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| I’m a mean motherhubbard
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| Papa one eyed jack
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| You probably seen me sleepin' out by the railroad tracks
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| Ask the prince of darkness 'bout the smoke from the stack
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| Sometimes I kill a jackal and suck out all the blood
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| Steal myself a station-wagon, drive it into the mud
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| Whistlin' past the graveyard
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| Steppin' on a crack
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| I’m a mean motherhubbard
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| Papa one eyed jack
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| I know you’ve seen my headlights and the honkin' of my horn
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| I’m callin' out my bloodhounds chase the devil out the corn
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| Last night I cracked the Mississippi now it’s dry as a bone
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| I was born in a taxi cab I ain’t never goin' home
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| Whistlin' past the graveyard
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| Steppin' on a crack
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| I’m a mean motherhubbard
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| Papa one eyed jack
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| My eyes have seen the glory
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| Of the drainin' of the ditch
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| I’m comin' to Baton Rouge
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| To find myself a witch
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| I’m gonna switch me up a couple of 'em every time it rains
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| You gotta see a locomotive
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| Probably thinkin' it’s a train
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| Whistlin' past the graveyard
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| Steppin' on a crack
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| I’m a mean motherhubbard
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| Papa one eyed jack
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| What you think is sunshine
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| Is just a twinkle in my eye
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| I got a ring around my finger called the 4th of July
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| When I get lonesome, a tear falls from my cheek
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| There’s gonna be an ocean in the middle of the week
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| Whistlin' past the graveyard
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| Steppin' on a crack
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| I’m a mean motherhubbard
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| Papa one eyed jack
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| I come in on the night train
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| With an arm full of box cars
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| On the wings of a magpie
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| Cross a hooligan night
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| I’m gonna tear off a rainbow
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| And wear it for a tie
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| I never told the truth
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| So how in the hell can I tell a lie
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| Whistlin' past the graveyard
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| Steppin' on a crack
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| I’m a mean motherhubbard
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| Papa one eyed jack |