Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey текст песни

You can take all the tea in china

Put it in a big brown bag for me

Sail right around the seven oceans

Drop it straight into the deep blue sea

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Shes an angel of the first degree

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Just like honey from the bee

You cant stop us on the road to freedom

You cant keep us cause our eyes can see

Men with insight, men in granite

Knights in armor bent on chivalry

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Shes an angel of the first degree

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Just like honey from the bee

You cant stop us on the road to freedom

You cant stop us cause our eyes can see

Men with insight, men in granite

Knights in armor intent on chivalry

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Shes an angel of the first degree

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Just like honey from the bee

You know shes alright

You know shes alright with me

Shes alright, shes alright (shes an angel)

You can take all the tea in china

Put it in a big brown bag for me

Sail it right around the seven oceans

Drop it smack dab in the middle of the deep blue sea

Because shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Shes an angel of the first degree

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Just like honey from the bee

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Shes an angel of the first degree

Shes as sweet as tupelo honey

Just like the honey, baby, from the bee

Shes 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 bible

That she reads on the balcony

Shes sweet in slumber and Ive got her number

For 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 origin

Here is, though, a true lost verse which is in the original sheet music:"

Ill tell a tale of old manhattan

Adirondack bus to go

Standing waiting on my number

And 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 manhattan

Ive never been there but I want to go

Standing waiting on my number

And my numbers gonna show.