Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey Lyrics
You can take all the tea in chinaPut it in a big brown bag for meSail right around the seven oceansDrop it straight into the deep blue seaShes as sweet as tupelo honeyShes an angel of the first degreeShes as sweet as tupelo honeyJust like honey from the beeYou cant stop us on the road to freedomYou cant keep us cause our eyes can seeMen with insight, men in graniteKnights in armor bent on chivalryShes as sweet as tupelo honeyShes an angel of the first degreeShes as sweet as tupelo honeyJust like honey from the beeYou cant stop us on the road to freedomYou cant stop us cause our eyes can seeMen with insight, men in graniteKnights in armor intent on chivalryShes as sweet as tupelo honeyShes an angel of the first degreeShes as sweet as tupelo honeyJust like honey from the beeYou know shes alrightYou know shes alright with meShes alright, shes alright (shes an angel)You can take all the tea in chinaPut it in a big brown bag for meSail it right around the seven oceansDrop it smack dab in the middle of the deep blue seaBecause shes as sweet as tupelo honeyShes an angel of the first degreeShes as sweet as tupelo honeyJust like honey from the beeShes as sweet as tupelo honeyShes an angel of the first degreeShes as sweet as tupelo honeyJust like the honey, baby, from the beeShes my baby, you know shes alright.....A posting to the van mailing list may/96 notes the existence of a lost verse to this song, here transcribed from a performance on the van morrison in ireland concert video:Theres a rose pressed inside a bibleThat she reads on the balconyShes sweet in slumber and Ive got her numberFor the beginning of the century.Van list member art siegel comments in nov/97 that I dont think the rose in the Bible is a true lost verse, but rather one that van added to his live performances years after the originHere is, though, a true lost verse which is in the original sheet music:Ill tell a tale of old manhattanAdirondack bus to goStanding waiting on my numberAnd my numbers gonna show.The dusty springfield cover version on the van morrison songbook cd has a variant of this:I heard a tale of old manhattanIve never been there but I want to goStanding waiting on my numberAnd my numbers gonna show.
