Don't Go Into That Barn Lyrics - Tom Waits

Don't go into that barn, yea Black cellophane sky at midnite 

Big blue moon with three gold rings 

I called Champion to the window 

And I pointed up above the trees 

That's where I heard my name in a scream 

Coming from the woods, out there 

I let my dog run off the chain 

I locked my door real good with a chair 

Don't go into that barn, yea Everett Lee broke loose again 

Its worse than the time before 

Cause he's high on potato and tulip wine 

Fermented in the muddy rain of course 

A drunken wail a drunk train 

Blew through the birdless trees 

Oh, you're alone alright 

Your alone alright 

How did I know Don't go into that barn, yea An old black tree 

Scratching up the sky 

With boney, claw like fingers 

A rusty black rake 

Digging up the turnips 

Of a muddy cold grey day 

Shiny tooth talons 

Coiled for grabbing a stranger 

Happening by 

And the day when home early 

And the sun sank down into 

The much of a deep dead sky 

Don't go into that barn, yea Bank since Saginaw Calinda was born 

It's been cotton, soybeans, tobacco and corn 

Behind the porticoed house of a 

Long dead farm 

They found the falling down timbers 

Of a spooky old barn 

Out there like a slave ship 

Upside down 

Wrecked beneath the waves of a rain 

When the river is low 

They find old bones and 

When they plow they always 

Dig up chains 

Don't go into that barn, yea Did you bury your fire? 

Yes sir 

Did you cover your tracks? 

Yes sir 

Did you bring your knife? 

Yes sir 

Did they see your face? 

No sir 

Did the Mom see you? 

No sir 

DId you go cross the river? 

Yes sir 

Did you fix your rake? 

Yes sir 

Did you stay down wind? 

Yes sir 

Did you hide your gun? 

Yes sir 

Did you smuggle your rum? 

Yes sir 

How did I know Don't go into that barn, yea Don't forget that I warned you 

Don't go into that barn, yea No shirt no coat 

Put me on a flat boat 

Dover, down to Covington 

Covington to Louisville 

Louisville to Henderson 

Henderson to Smithland 

Smithland to Memphis 

Down to Vicksburg to 

Natchez put me on a 

Flat boat Dover Dam 

To Covington, Covington to 

Louisville, Louisville to 

Henderson 

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