Song | Bishop Danced - Live |
Artist | Bruce Springsteen |
Album | Tracks |
Lyrics:Bruce Springsteen Music:Bruce Springsteen | |
Bishop danced with a thumbscrew woman | |
Did a double-quick back flip and slid across the floor | |
The Catholic traffic flowed freely 'cross the river | |
And fiddlestick fiddled quick out the front door | |
Oh baby dumpling, mama's in the back tree | |
If the bow breaks mama might fall | |
Little sad and only, baby don't be lonely | |
Mama knows 'rithmatic, knows how to take a fall | |
Mama knows 'rithmatic, knows how to take a fall | |
CHORUS | |
And the kids are crying 'Flapjacks, make'em fat, early in the mornin' | |
Little Jack, grab your hat, hear the breakfast call | |
Muskrat, bat a cat, kick him in the fireplace | |
There's someone in the kitchen blowing 'Dinah' on their horn | |
There's someone in the kitchen blowing 'Dinah' like they're born | |
Well maverick daddy got one-eyed bridge | |
She glides like a monkey-mule kicking on the back slide | |
Over hill, over hill, daddy don't you spill now | |
Papa got a switch stick, he's pumping little Bill | |
Papa got a switch stick, he's pumping little Bill | |
And Billy, he's crying 'Tomahawk, tomahawk, daddy better duck now' | |
The Mohawks, the Mohawks, they're still out there in the woods | |
Monatuk, Ocanuk, runnin' through my dreams now | |
With fire on their fingertips and indian screams | |
With fire on their fingertips and feathers made of moonbeams | |
Well early in the morning the cannoneer cried | |
'I seen the sailor's warning in the western sky' | |
Well mountain man, if you can, cut me down a fir tree | |
Branches full of candlesticks for baby and me | |
And my darling cried, she said 'Honey, the weathervane | |
lately it's been pointing the way to heaven | |
Scatterbrains, scatterbrains, watch out where you fall | |
Champagne, champagne, a round for all the old choir boys | |
They're busting off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall | |
They're bustin' off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall | |
CHORUS |
Lyrics: Bruce Springsteen Music: Bruce Springsteen | |
Bishop danced with a thumbscrew woman | |
Did a doublequick back flip and slid across the floor | |
The Catholic traffic flowed freely ' cross the river | |
And fiddlestick fiddled quick out the front door | |
Oh baby dumpling, mama' s in the back tree | |
If the bow breaks mama might fall | |
Little sad and only, baby don' t be lonely | |
Mama knows ' rithmatic, knows how to take a fall | |
Mama knows ' rithmatic, knows how to take a fall | |
CHORUS | |
And the kids are crying ' Flapjacks, make' em fat, early in the mornin' | |
Little Jack, grab your hat, hear the breakfast call | |
Muskrat, bat a cat, kick him in the fireplace | |
There' s someone in the kitchen blowing ' Dinah' on their horn | |
There' s someone in the kitchen blowing ' Dinah' like they' re born | |
Well maverick daddy got oneeyed bridge | |
She glides like a monkeymule kicking on the back slide | |
Over hill, over hill, daddy don' t you spill now | |
Papa got a switch stick, he' s pumping little Bill | |
Papa got a switch stick, he' s pumping little Bill | |
And Billy, he' s crying ' Tomahawk, tomahawk, daddy better duck now' | |
The Mohawks, the Mohawks, they' re still out there in the woods | |
Monatuk, Ocanuk, runnin' through my dreams now | |
With fire on their fingertips and indian screams | |
With fire on their fingertips and feathers made of moonbeams | |
Well early in the morning the cannoneer cried | |
' I seen the sailor' s warning in the western sky' | |
Well mountain man, if you can, cut me down a fir tree | |
Branches full of candlesticks for baby and me | |
And my darling cried, she said ' Honey, the weathervane | |
lately it' s been pointing the way to heaven | |
Scatterbrains, scatterbrains, watch out where you fall | |
Champagne, champagne, a round for all the old choir boys | |
They' re busting off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall | |
They' re bustin' off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall | |
CHORUS |