Whistlin' Past The Graveyard Lyrics - Used Songs (1973-1980) - Tom Waits

I come in on a night train 

With an arm full of box cars 

On the wings of a magpie 

Cross a hooligan night 

I busted up a chifforobe 

Way out by the cocomo 

Cooked up a mess a mulligan 

And got into a fight 

Whistlin' past the graveyard 

Steppin' on a crack 

A mean Mother Hubbard Papa One Eyed Jack 

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You probably seen me sleepin' 

Out by the railroad tracks 

Go on and ask the Prince Of Darkness 

What about all that smoke 

Come from the stack 

Sometimes I kill myself a jackel 

Suck out all the blood 

Steal myself a stationwagon 

Drivin' through the mud 

I want to whistlin' past the graveyard 

Steppin' on a crack 

I'm mean Mother Hubbard Papa One Eyed Jack 

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I know you seen my headlights 

And the honkin' of my horn 

I'm callin' out my bloodhounds 

Chase the devil through the corn 

Last night I chugged the Mississippi 

Now that suckers dry as a bone 

I'm Born in a taxi cab 

I'm never comin' home 

Whistlin' past the graveyard 

Steppin' on a crack 

I'm mean Mother Hubbard Papa One Eyed Jack 

My eyes have seen the glory 

Of the drainin' of the ditch 

I only come to Baton Rouge 

To find myself a witch 

I'm-ona snatch me up a 

Couple of 'em every time it rains 

You see a locomotive 

Probably thinkin' its a train 

Whistlin' past the graveyard 

Steppin' on a crack 

I'm a mean Mother Hubbard Papa One Eyed Jack 

What you think is the sunshine 

Is just a twinkle in my eye 

That ring around my finger 

Called the 4th of July 

When I get a little bit lonesome 

And a tear falls from my check 

There's gonna be an ocean in 

The middle of the week 

Whistlin' past the graveyard 

Steppin' on a crack 

I'm mean Mother Hubbard Papa One Eyed Jack 

I come into town on a night train 

Arm full of box cars 

On the wings of a magpie 

Cross a hooligan night 

I'm gona tear me off a rainbow 

And wear it for a tie 

I never told the truth 

So I can never tell a lie 

Whistlin' past the graveyard 

Steppin' on a crack 

A mean Mother Hubbard Papa One Eyed Jack