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Murder in the Red Barn
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(Tom Waits/K. Brennan)
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There was a murder in the red barn
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Murder in the red barn
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The trees are bending over
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The cows are lying down
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The autumn's taking over
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You can hear the buckshot hounds
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The watchman said to Reba the loon
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Was it pale at Manzanita
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Or Blind Bob the raccoon?
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Pin it on a drifter
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They sleep beneath the bridge
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One plays the violin
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And sleeps inside a fridge
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There was a murder in the red barn
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A murder in the red barn
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Someone's crying in the woods
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Someone's burying all his clothes
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Now Slam the Crank from Wheezer
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Slept outside last night and froze
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Road kill has its seasons
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Just like anything
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It's possums in the autumn
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And it's farm cats in the spring
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There was a murder in the red barn
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A murder in the red barn
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Now thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house
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Or covet thy neighbor's wife
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But for some
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Murder is the only door thru which they enter life
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Now they surrounded the house
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They smoke him out
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They took him off in chains
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The sky turned black and bruised
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And we had months of heavy rains
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Now the raven's nest in the rotted roof
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Of Chenoweth's old place
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And no one's asking Cal
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About that scar upon his face
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'Cause there's nothin' strange
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About an axe with bloodstains in the barn
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There's always some killin'
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You got to do around the farm
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A murder in the red barn
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Murder in the red barn
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Now the woods will never tell
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What sleeps beneath the trees
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Or what's buried 'neath a rock
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Or hiding in the leaves
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'Cause road kill has it's seasons
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Just like anything
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It's possums in the autumn
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And it's farm cats in the spring
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A murder in the red barn
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A murder in the red barn
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Now a lady can't do nothin'
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Without folks' tongues waggin'
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Is this blood on the tree
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Or is it autumn's red blaze
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When the ground's soft for diggin'
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ANd the rain will bring all this gloom
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There's nothing wrong with a lady
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Drinking alone in her room
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But there was a murder in the red barn
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A murder in the red barn
Tom Waits - "Murder In The Red Barn"
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