[Verse 1]
Born of the river
Born of its ever-changing, never-changing murky water, yeah, hoo!
Oh, riverboat just rollin' along through the great, great, greasy city
Huck standing like a Saint, upon its deck
If ya wanna catch a Saint
Then bait ya hook, let's take a walk
[Chorus]
"O come to me! O come to me!" is what the dirty city
Say to Huck
Huck!
Woah-woah, oh-oh!
Woah-woah, oh-oh!
Oh-oh-oh-ooh
Saint Huck! Huck!
[Verse 2]
Straight in the arms of the city goes Huck
Down the beckonin' streets of opportunity
And a-whistling his favorite river-song
And a bad-blind nigga at the piano
Puts a sinister blue lilt into that sing-a-long
And Huck senses something's wrong
Sirens wail in the city
And little Ulysses turn to putty
And Ol' Man River's got a bone to pick
And our boy's hardly got a bone to suck
[Chorus]
He goes, oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh!
Oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-ooh
Saint Huck! Yeah, Huck!
Huck! Yeah
[Verse 3]
The moon, its huge cycloptic eye
Watches the city streets contract
Twist and cripple and crack
Saint Huck goes on a dog's leg now
Saint Huck goes on a dog's leg now
You know the story
Ya wake up one morning and you find you're a thug
Blowing smoke rings in some dive
Ya fingers hot and itching, ya cracking your knuckles
Your bull neck bristling
Still, Huck, he ventures on whistling
And Death reckons Huckleberry's time is up
[Chorus]
And oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh
Saint Huck! Yeah, Huck! Huh
Oh-oh-oh, oh
Saint Huck
[Verse 4]
Yonder go Huck, minus pocket-watch and wallet gone
Skin shrink-wraps his skeleton
No wonder he gets thinner, what with his hot and skinny dinner
Saint Huck-a-Saint Elvis, Saint Huck-a-Saint Elvis
And you recall the song ya used to sing-along
Shifting the river-trade on that ol' steamer
Life is but a dream
But ya traded in the Mighty Ol' Man River
For the Dirty ol' Man Latrine!
The brothel shift
The hustle and the bustle and the green-backs rustle
And all the sexy cash
And the randy cars
And the two-dollar fucks
Oh, your outta luck, oh, your outta luck
[Chorus]
Oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh
Saint Huck
Yeah, yeah, Huck
[Verse 5]
This is the track of deception
Leads to the heart of despair
Huck whistles like he just don't care
But in the pocket of the jacket is a chamber
Lead pellet sleeps in there
Wake up
Now Huck whistles, and he kneels
And he lays down there
See ya, Huck, good luck
A smoke ring hovers above his head
And the rats and the dogs and the men all come
And put a bullet through his eye
And the drip and the drip and the drip of the Mississippi cryin'
And Saint Huck hears his own Mississippi just rollin' by him
[Chorus]
Oh-woah-woah-woah, oh-woah-woah-woah-woah
Oh-woah-woah-woah, oh-woah-woah-woah-woah
Oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh
Saint Huck! Saint Huck! Saint Huck! Saint Huck!
Oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh
Saint Huck! Saint Huck! Saint Huck! (Oh-oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-ooh)
Oh-woah-woah-woah, oh-woah-woah-woah-woah
Oh-woah-woah-woah-ooh
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