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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
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Born of the river,
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Born of its ever-changing, never-changing murky water
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Oh riverboat just rollin' along through the great great greasy city Huck standing like a Saint, upon its deck
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If ya wanna catch a Saint,
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then bait ya hook, let's take a walk...
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'O come to me!, O come to me!' is what the dirty city
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say to Huck... HUCK
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woah-woah, woah woah!
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woah-woah, woah woah!
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Saint Huck! Huck!
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Straight in the arms of the city goes Huck,
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down the beckonin' streets of op-po-tunity
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whistling his favorite river-song...
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And a bad-blind nigger at the piano
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Buts a sinister blooo lilt into that sing-a-long
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Huck senses somthing's wrong!
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Sirens wail in the city,
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and lil-Ulysses turn to putty
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and Ol Man River's got a bone to pick!
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and our boy's hardly got a bone to suck!
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He go, woah-woah, woah woah!
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woah-woah, woah woah!
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Saint Huck! Huck!
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The mo-o-o-on, its huge cycloptic eye
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watches the city streets contract
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twist and cripple and crack.
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Saint Huck goes on a dog's-leg now
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Saint Huck goes on a dog's-leg now
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You know the story!
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Ya wake up one morning and you find you're a thug
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blowing smoke rings in some dive
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Ya fingers hot and itchin, ya cracking ya knuckles
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Ya bull neck bristling...
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Still Huck he ventures on whistling,
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and Death reckons Huckleberry's time is up,
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O woah woah woah!
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Saint Huck!
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O woah woah woah!
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Saint Huck! Huck!
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Yonder go Huck, minus pocket-watch an' wallet gone
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Skin shrink-wraps his skeleton
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No wonder he gets thinner, what with his cold''skinny dinners!
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Saint Huck-a-Saint Elvis, Saint Huck-a-Saint Elvis
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O you recall the song ya used to sing-a-long
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Shifting the river-trade on that ol' steamer
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Life is but a dream!
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But ya traded in the Mighty ol' man River
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for the Dirty ol' Man Latrine!
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The brothel shift
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The hustle''the bustle and the green-backs rustle
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And all the sexy-cash
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And the randy-cars
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And the two dollar fucks
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O o o ya outa luck, ya outa luck
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Woah-woah-woah-woah
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Saint Huck! Huck!
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This is the track of deception
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leads to the heart of despair
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Huck whistles like he just don't care
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but in the pocket of the jacket is a chamber
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Lead pellets sleeps in there
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Wake Up!
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Now Huck whistles and he kneels
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and he lays down there
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See ya huck, good luck
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A smoke ring hovers above his head
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And the rats and the dogs and the men all come
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and put a bullet through his eye
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and the drip and the drip and the drip of the Mississippi cryin' And Saint Huck hears his own Mississippi just rollin' by him Woah-woah-woah-woah
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Woah-woah-woah-woah
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Saint Huck! Saint Huck! Saint Huck!
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Woah-woah-woah-woah
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Woah-woah-woah-woah
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Saint Huck! Saint Huck! Saint Huck!
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Woah-woah-woah-woah
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