4&20 Blues

Four and twenty blackbirds sitting on a fence
 Four and twenty years and I been trying to make some sense
 But it don't look too good mama
 Don't look too good for me
 I was wading in the water but I only got washed out to sea
 Four and twenty blackbirds flying through the sky
 Four and twenty years and still I'm barely getting by
 But it don't look too good mama
 Don't look too good for me
 I was toiling in the fields
 But the whirlwind is all I did see
 Four and twenty blackbirds crowing up above
 Four and twenty years and I been in and out of love
 But it don't look too good mama
 Don't look too good for me
 Well my cup runneth over
 But it never seems to satisfy me
 It's four and twenty thunder
 Four and twenty rain
 I just walking on the rails
 I just keep grinning at the train
 But it don't look too good mama
 Don't look too good for me
 Oh my cup runneth over
 But it never seems to satisfy me
 Four and twenty blackbirds crowing on a wire
 Four and twenty years that I been caught up in desire
 But it don't look too good mama
 Don't look too good for me
 I got one taste of the apple
 And I wanted the whole damned tree