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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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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
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Huck standing like a Saint upon its deck
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Well, you wanna catch a Saint, then bait ya hook, let's take a walk
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Oh come to me, oh come to me
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Is what the dirty city say to Huck, Huck
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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 opportunity
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And a whistling his favorite river song
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And a bad blind nigger at the piano
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Puts a sinister blue lilt into that sing along
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Huck senses somthing's wrong
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Sirens wail in the city
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And little 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 goes
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Saint Huck, yeah Huck
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The moon, its huge cycloptic eye 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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You 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, still Huck he ventures on whistling
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And death reckons Huckleberry's time is up
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And Saint Huck, yeah Huck
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Saint 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 and skinny dinners
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Oh, Saint Huck, a Saint Elvis Huck
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Saint Huck, a Saint Elvis Huck
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And you recall that song you used to sing along
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Shifting the river trade on that ol' steamer, life is but a dreamer
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But ya traded in the mighty ol' man river for the dirty ol' man latrine
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The brothel shift, the hustle '' the bustle and the green backs rustle
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And all the sexy cash and the randy cars and the two dollar fucks
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You outta luck, you outta luck
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Saint Huck, yeah, yeah, Huck
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This is the track of deception 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, wake up
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Now Huck whistles and he kneels and he lays down there
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See you 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'
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And Saint Huck hears his old Mississippi just rollin' by him
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Saint Huck, Saint Huck, Saint Huck, Saint Huck
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Saint Huck, Saint Huck, Saint Huck, Saint Huck
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