Tupelo Songtext
von Captain Beefheart

Great flood

Oh yeah
Oh yeah, baby
Have you heard about the flood?
I′m way down a little country town
Down south somewhere
A little country town
Tupelo, Mississippi

Poor people
Oh yeah, poor people
Didn't have nowhere to go
No place to call their own
Oh no

Oh Lord


Happen one Friday evening
Yeah, one Friday evening
Dark cloud rose
Rain just started raining
Oh, it rained both night and day down there
The people got worried
They didn′t know what to do
Play it for me

Wasn't that a mighty time?
Wasn't that a mighty time, boys?
Wasn′t that a mighty time down there?
Women screaming
Women and children crying for mercy
Who can we turn to now?
Got no place to call our own
Oh no, we don′t got none
We don't got no place our own
Oh no

Oh no

I′ll never forget it
I don't think you will either
Great flood
Tupelo
Wasn′t that a mighty time, boys?
Wasn't that a mighty time down there?
Oh yeah
Wasn′t that a mighty time