Tupelo Honey

<br>You can take all the tea in china<br><br>Put it in a big brown bag for me<br><br>Sail right around the seven oceans<br><br>Drop it straight into the deep blue sea<br><br>Shes as sweet as tupelo honey<br><br>Shes an angel of the first degree<br><br>Shes as sweet as tupelo honey<br><br>Just like honey from the bee<br><br><br><br>You cant stop us on the road to freedom<br><br>You cant keep us cause our eyes can see<br><br>Men with insight, men in granite<br><br>Knights in armor bent on chivalry<br><br>Shes as sweet as tupelo honey<br><br>Shes an angel of the first degree<br><br>Shes as sweet as tupelo honey<br><br>Just like honey from the bee<br><br><br><br>You cant stop us on the road to freedom<br><br>You cant stop us cause our eyes can see<br><br>Men with insight, men in granite<br><br>Knights in armor intent on chivalry<br><br>Shes as sweet as tupelo honey<br><br>Shes an angel of the first degree<br><br>Shes as sweet as tupelo honey<br><br>Just like honey from the bee<br><br><br><br>You know shes alright<br><br>You know shes alright with me<br><br>Shes alright, shes alright (shes an angel)<br><br><br><br>You can take all the tea in china<br><br>Put it in a big brown bag for me<br><br>Sail it right around the seven oceans<br><br>Drop it smack dab in the middle of the deep blue sea<br><br>Because shes as sweet as tupelo honey<br><br>Shes an angel of the first degree<br><br>Shes as sweet as tupelo honey<br><br>Just like honey from the bee<br><br><br><br>Shes as sweet as tupelo honey<br><br>Shes an angel of the first degree<br><br>Shes as sweet as tupelo honey<br><br>Just like the honey, baby, from the bee<br><br>Shes my baby, you know shes alright.....<br><br><br><br>A posting to the van mailing list may/96 notes the existence of a &quot;lost verse&quot; to this song, here transcribed from a performance on the van morrison in ireland concert video:<br><br><br><br><br><br>Theres a rose pressed inside a bible<br><br>That she reads on the balcony<br><br>Shes sweet in slumber and Ive got her number<br><br>For the beginning of the century.<br><br><br><br>Van list member art siegel comments in nov/97 that &quot;i dont 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<br><br>Here is, though, a true lost verse which is in the original sheet music:&quot;<br><br><br><br>Ill tell a tale of old manhattan<br><br>Adirondack bus to go<br><br>Standing waiting on my number<br><br>And my numbers gonna show.<br><br><br><br>The dusty springfield cover version on the van morrison songbook cd has a variant of this:<br><br><br><br>I heard a tale of old manhattan<br><br>Ive never been there but I want to go<br><br>Standing waiting on my number<br><br>And my numbers gonna show.