Lyric Tupelo Honey
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.
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.
