text: I come in on a night train with an arm full of boxcars
  On the wings of a magpie cross a hooligan night
  And I busted up a chifferobe way out by the kokomo
  Cooked up a mess of mulligan and got into a fight
  Whistling past the graveyard stepping on a crack
  Me and mother hubbard papa one-eyed Jack
  You probably seen me sleepin out by the railroad tracks
  Go on and ask the prince of darkness
  What about all that smoke come from the stack
  Sometimes I kill myself a jackal suck out all the blood
  Steal myself a station wagon driving through the mud
  Im gonna be whistlin past the graveyard steppin on a crack
  Me and mother hubbard papa one-eyed Jack
  I know you seen my headlights and the honkin of my horn
  Im callin out my bloodhounds chase the devil through the corn
  Last night I chugged the Mississippi now that suckers dry as a bone
  I was born in a taxi cab Im never going home
  Whistling past the graveyard stepping on a crack
  Me and mother hubbard Papa one-eyed Jack
  My eyes have seen the glory of the draining of the ditch
  I only come to Baton Rouge I gotta find myself a witch
  Im gonna snatch me up a couple of em every time it rains
  Youll see a locomotive probably thinking its a train
  Whistling past the graveyard stepping on a crack
  Me and mother hubbard Papa one-eyed Jack
  What you think is the sunshine is just a twinkle in my eye
  That ring around my fingers called the fourth of July
  When I get a little bit lonesome and a tear falls from my cheek
  Theres gonna be an ocean in the middle of the week
  Whistling past the graveyard stepping on a crack
  Me and mother hubbard Papa one-eyed Jack
  I come into town on a night train with an arm full of boxcars
  On the wings of a magpie cross a hooligan night
  Im gonna tear me off a rainbow and wear it for a tie
  I never told the truth so I can never tell a lie
  Whistling past the graveyard stepping on a crack
  Me and mother hubbard Papa one-eyed Jack