Waits Tom - Murder In The Red Barn Lyrics

There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn



The trees are bending over and the cows are lying down

The autumn's taking over, you can hear the Buckshot hounds

The watchman said to Reba the loon

Was it pale at Manzanita, was it Blind Bob the coon?

Pin it on a drifter they sleep beneath the bridge

One plays the violin and sleeps inside a fridge

There was a murder in the red barn, murder in the red barn



Someone's crying in the woods, someone's burying all his clothes

Now Slam the Crank from Wheezer slept outside last night and froze

Roadkill has its seasons just like anything

There's possums in the autumn and there's farm cats in the spring

There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn



Now thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house or covet they neighbor's wife

But for some murder is the only door through which they enter life



Well, they surrounded the house, they smoked him out, took him off in chains

They sky runed black and bruised and we had months of heavy rains

Now, the ravens nest in the rotted roof of Chenoweth's old place

And no one's asking Cal about that scar upon his face

'Cause there's nothin' strange about an axe with bloodstains in barn,

There's always some killin' you got to do around the farm

A murder in the red barn, murder in the red barn



The woods will never tell what sleeps beneath the trees

Or what's buried 'neath a rock or hiding in the leaves

'Cause roadkill has it's seasons just like anything

It's possums in the autumn and it's farm cats in the spring

A murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn



Now, a lady can't do nothin' without folks' tongues waggin'

Is this blood on the tree or is it autumn's red blaze?

When the ground' soft for diggin' and the rain will bring all this gloom

There's nothing wrong with a lady drinking alone in her room

But there was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn



There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn