Tupelo Honey
Van Morrison/Tupelo Honey album

     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 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. 

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