Bishop Danced (Live at Max's Kansas City - January 1973)

Bishop Danced (Live at Max's Kansas City - January 1973) - Bruce Springsteen

Bishop danced with a thumbscrew woman

Did a double-quick back flip and slid across the floor

The Catholic traffic flowed freely 'cross the river

And fiddlestick fiddled quick out the front door

Oh baby dumpling mama's in the back tree

If the bow breaks mama might fall

Little sad and only baby don't be lonely

Mama knows 'rithmatic knows how to take a fall

Mama knows 'rithmatic knows how to take a fall

And the kids are crying

Flapjacks make'em fat early in the morning

Little Jack grab your hat hear the breakfast call

Muskrat bat a cat kick him in the fireplace

There's someone in the kitchen blowing

Dinah on their horn

There's someone in the kitchen blowing

Dinah like they're born

Well maverick daddy got one-eyed bridge bridge

Like a monkey-mule kicking on the back slide

Over hill over hill daddy don't you spill now

Papa got a switch stick he's pumping little Bill

Papa got a switch stick he's pumping little Bill

And Billy he's crying

Tomahawk tomahawk daddy better duck now

The Mohawks the Mohawks they're still out there in the woods

Monatuk Ocanuk running through my dreams now

With fire on their fingertips and indian screams

With fire on their fingertips and feathers made of moonbeams

Well early in the morning the cannoneer cried

I seen the sailor's warning in the western sky

Well mountain man if you can cut me down a fir tree

Branches full of candlesticks for baby and me

And my darling cried she said Honey the weathervane

Lately it's been pointing the way to heaven

Scatterbrains scatterbrains watch out where you fall

Champagne champagne a round for all the old choir boys

They're busting off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall

They're busting off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall

And the kids are crying Flapjacks make'em fat early in the morning

Little Jack grab your hat hear the breakfast call

Muskrat bat a cat kick him in the fireplace

There's someone in the kitchen blowing Dinah on their horn

There's someone in the kitchen blowing Dinah like they're born