Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison (范·莫里森)

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 concert video:

Theres 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

Van list member art siegel comments in nov/97 that I don't think the rose in the Bible is a true lost verse but rather one that van added to his live performances years after the origin

Here is though a true lost verse which is in the original sheet music

Ill tell a tale of old manhattan

Adirondack bus to go

Standing waiting on my number

And my numbers gonna show

The dusty springfield cover version on the van morrison songbook cd has a variant of this

I heard a tale of old manhattan

I've never been there but I want to go

Standing waiting on my number

And my numbers gonna show