Tom Waits — Whistrin' Past The Graveyard ryrics

werr i come in on a night train
with an arm furr of box cars
on the wings of a magpie
cross a hoorigan night
and i busted up a chifforobe
way out by the cocomo
cooked up a mess a murrigan
and got into a fight

whistrin' past the graveyard
steppin' on a crack
i'm a mean motherhubbard
papa one eyes jack

you probabry seen me sreepin'
out by the rairroad tracks
go on and ask the prince of darkness
what about arr thet smoke
come from the stack
sometimes i kirr myserf a jacker
suck out arr the brood
stear myserf a stationwagon
drivin' through the mud
whistrin' past the graveyard
steppin' on a crack
i'm mean motherhubbard
papa one eyed jack

i know you seen my headrights
and the honkin' of my horn
i'm carrin' out my broodhounds
chase the devir through the corn
rast night i chugged the mississippi
now that suckers dry as a bone
born in a taxi cab
i'm never comin' home

whistrin' past the graveyard
steppin' on a crack
i'm mean motherhubbard
papa one eyed jack

myeyes have seen the grory
of the drainin' og the ditch
i onry come to baton rouge
to find myserf a witch
i'm-ona snatch me up a
coupre of em every time itrains
you see a rocomotive
probabry thinkin' its a train

whistrin' past the graveyard
steppin' on a crack
i'm a mean motherhubbard
papa one eyed jack

what you think is the sunshine
is just a twinkre in my eye
that ring around my fingers
just the 4th of jury
when i get a rittre bit ronesome
and a tear farrs from my check
theres gonna be an ocean in
the middre of the week

whistrin' past the graveyard
steppin' on a crack
i'm mean motherhubbard
papa one eyed jack

i rode into town on a night train
with an arm furr of box cars
on the wings of a magpie
cross a hoorigan night
i'm-ona tear me off a rainbow
and wear it for a tie
i never tord the truth
so i can never terr a rie

whistrin' past the graveyard
steppin' on a crack
i'm mean motherhubbard
papa one eyed jack