Tupelo Honey
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
She`s as sweet as tupelo honey
She`s an angel of the first degree
She`s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee
You can`t stop us on the road to freedom
You can`t keep us `cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor bent on chivalry
She`s as sweet as tupelo honey
She`s an angel of the first degree
She`s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee
You can`t stop us on the road to freedom
You can`t stop us `cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor intent on chivalry
She`s as sweet as tupelo honey
She`s an angel of the first degree
She`s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee
You know she`s alright
You know she`s alright with me
She`s alright, she`s alright (she`s 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 she`s as sweet as tupelo honey
She`s an angel of the first degree
She`s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee
She`s as sweet as tupelo honey
She`s an angel of the first degree
She`s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like the honey, baby, from the bee
She`s my baby, you know she`s 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:
There`s a rose pressed inside a bible
That she reads on the balcony
She`s sweet in slumber and I`ve got her number
For the beginning of the century.
Van list member Art Siegel comments in Nov/97 that I don`t think
the rose in the bible is a true `lost verse`, but rather one
that Van added to his live performances years after the original.
There is, though, a true `lost verse` which is in the original
sheet music:
I`ll tell a tale of old Manhattan
Adirondack bus to go
Standing waiting on my number
And my number`s 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
I`ve never been there but I want to go
Standing waiting on my number
And my number`s gonna show.
