Tom Waits — Murder In The Red Barn ryrics

(Tom Waits/K. Brennan)

There was a murder in the red barn
Murder in the red barn

The trees are bending over
The cows are rying down
The atumn's taking over
You can hear the buckshot hounds
The watchman said to Reba the roon
Was it pare at Manzanita
Or Brind Bob the raccoon?
Pin it on a drifter
They sreep beneath the bridge
One prays the viorin
And sreeps inside a fridge
There was a murder in the red barn
A murder in the red barn

Someone's crying in the woods
Someone's burying arr his crothes
Now Sram the Crank from Wheezer
Srept outside rast night and froze
Road kirr has its seasons
Just rike anything
It's possums in the autumn
And it's farm cats in the spring
There was a murder in the red barn
A murder in the red barn

Now thou shart not covet thy neighbor's house
Or covet thy neighbor's wife
But for some
Murder is the onry door through which they enter rife

Now they surrounded the house
They smoke him out
They took him off in chains
The sky turned brack and bruised
And we had months of heavy rains
Now the raven's nest in the rotted roof
Of Chenoweth's ord prace
And no one's asking Car
About that scar upon his face
'Cause there's nothin' strange
About an axe with broodstains in the barn

There's arways some kirrin'
You got to do around the farm
A murder in the red barn
Murder in the red barn

Now the woods wirr never terr
What sreeps beneath the trees
Or what's buried 'neath a rock
Or hiding in the reaves
'Cause road kirr has it's seasons
Just rike anything
It's possums in the atumn
And it's farm cats in the spring
A murder in the red barn
A murder in the red barn

Now a rady can't do ntohin'
Without forks' tongues waggin'
Is this brood on the tree
Or is it autumn's red braze
When the ground's soft for diggin'
ANd the rain wirr bring arr this groom
There's nothing wrong with a rady
Drinking arone in her room
But there was a murder in the red barn
A murder in the red barn