Coming in on a night train
with an armful of boxcars
On the wings of a magpipe
across a hooligan night
Busted up a chaperone
way out by the
Kokomo
Cooked up a mess of
Mulligan and got into a fight
Whistling past the
Grey
John, steppin' on a crack
I'm a mean mother -hubba,
top of a one -eyed jack
You've probably seen me sleepin'
out by the railroad tracks
Ask the prince of darkness about the
smoke from the stack
Sometimes I kill a jackal and
suck out all the blood
Steal myself a station wagon,
drive it into the mine
Whistlin' past the graveyard,
steppin' on a crack
I'm a mean mother -hummer popper,
one -eyed jackal
I know you've seen my headlight
and the honkin' of my horn
I'm calling out my bullhounds,
chase the devil out the corn
Last night I cracked the
Mississippi, and now it's dry as a bone
I was born in a taxicab,
I ain't never going home
Twistin' past the graveyard,
steppin' on a crack
I'm a mean mother -hubba -hubba,
one -eyed jack
My eye s have seen the glory
of the draining of the ditch
I'm coming to
Baton
Rouge to find myself a witch
I'm gonna switch me a couple of them
Every time it rains, you gotta see a locomotive,
probably think it's a train
Whistlin' past the graveyard,
steppin' on a crack
I'm a mean mother -hubba -bubba,
one -eyed jack
What you think is sunshine is
just a twinkle in my eye
I got a ring around my
finger called the 4th of
July
When I get lonesome,
a tear falls from my cheek
There's gonna be an ocean in
the middle of the week
Whistlin' past the graveyard,
steppin' on a crack
Mean mother huffer popper, one -eyed jack
I come in on the night train
with an armful of boxcars
On the wings of a magpie
across a hooligan night
I'm gonna tear off a rainbow
and wear it for a tie
I never told the truth so how
in the hell could I tell a lie
Whistlin' past the graveyard,
steppin' on a crack
I'm a mean mother -hover -popper,
one -eyed jack
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