歌手:Nick Cave
专辑:《From Her to Eternity》

作词 : Nick Cave
作曲 : Nick Cave
Born of the river

Born of its ever changing
Never changing murky water

Oh riverboat just rolling 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

O come to me o come to me is what the dirty city

Say to Huck Huck

Saint Huck Huck

Straight in the arms of the city goes Huck

Down the beckoning streets of op po tunity

Whistling his favorite river song

And a bad blind n****r at the piano
Buts a sinister blooo lilt into that sing a long

Huck senses something's wrong

Sirens wail in the city

And lil Ulysses turn to putty

And ol' man river's got a bone to pick

And our boy's hardly got a bone to suck

He go

Saint Huck Huck

The mo o o on 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 ya knuckles

Ya bull neck bristling

Still Huck he ventures on whistling

And death reckons huckleberry's time is up

Saint Huck

Saint Huck

Yonder go Huck minus pocket watch an' wallet gone

Skin shrink wraps his skeleton

No wonder he gets thinner
What with his cold'n'skinny dinners

Saint Huck a saint Elvis saint Huck a saint Elvis

O you recall the song ya used to sing a long
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 'n' the bustle and the green backs rustle

And all the sexy cash
And the randy cars
And the two dollar girl
O o o ya outa luck ya outa luck

Saint Huck Huck

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 pellets 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 crying

And saint Huck hears his own Mississippi just rolling by him

Saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck

Saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck