He kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsill
She'll never love him but knows that her father will
Her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but her
****** never dries when he's hungry

The money came and she died in her rockin' chair
The window wide and the rain in her braided hair
A letter locked in the pattern of her knuckle
Like a hymn to the house she was makin'

Blind and whistlin' just around the corner and there's a
Wind that is whisperin' somethin'
Strong as hell but not hickory rooted

She kissed him once 'cause he gave her a cigarette
And turned around but he waits like a turned down bed
And summer left like her walkin' with another and a
Sound of a church bell ringin'

The money came and he died like a butterfly
A buried star and the haze of the city lights
A gun went off and her mother dropped her baby on the
Blue feathered wing, we were lucky

Blind and whistlin' just around the corner and there's a
Wind that is whisperin' somethin'
Strong as hell but not hickory rooted