[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:24.32]There was a murder in the red barn [00:27.64]Murder in the red barn [00:35.56]The trees are bending over [00:38.46]The cows are lying down [00:40.95]The autumn's taking over [00:43.09]You can hear the buckshot hounds [00:46.26]The watchman said to Reba the loon [00:51.01]Was it pale at Manzanita [00:53.85]Or Blind Bob the raccoon? [00:57.38]Pin it on a drifter [00:59.63]They sleep beneath the bridge [01:03.05]One plays the violin [01:04.95]And sleeps inside a fridge [01:07.16]There was a murder in the red barn [01:10.55]A murder in the red barn [01:13.90] [01:18.26]Someone's crying in the woods [01:20.86]Someone's burying all his clothes [01:23.81]Now Slam the Crank from Wheezer [01:25.97]Slept outside last night and froze [01:29.88]Road kill has its seasons [01:31.93]Just like anything [01:35.06]It's possums in the autumn [01:37.09]And it's farm cats in the spring [01:39.76]There was a murder in the red barn [01:43.02]A murder in the red barn [01:46.40] [01:50.70]Now thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house [01:54.24]Or covet thy neighbor's wife [01:56.69]But for some [01:57.47]Murder is the only door thru which they enter life [01:59.91] [02:06.24]Now they surrounded the house [02:08.99]They smoke him out [02:10.58]They took him off in chains [02:12.42]The sky turned black and bruised [02:15.11]And we had months of heavy rains [02:17.92]Now the raven's nest in the rotted roof [02:20.35]Of Chenoweth's old place [02:22.98]And no one's asking Cal [02:25.09]About that scar upon his face [02:28.42]'Cause there's nothin' strange [02:30.89]About an axe with bloodstains in the barn [02:32.97] [02:34.26]There's always some killin' [02:35.89]You got to do around the farm [02:39.23]A murder in the red barn [02:42.00]Murder in the red barn [02:44.68] [03:00.48]Now the woods will never tell [03:02.26]What sleeps beneath the trees [03:05.49]Or what's buried 'neath a rock [03:08.47]Or hiding in the leaves [03:10.84]'Cause road kill has it's seasons [03:13.48]Just like anything [03:16.25]It's possums in the autumn [03:18.43]And it's farm cats in the spring [03:21.90]A murder in the red barn [03:24.12]A murder in the red barn [03:27.24] [03:31.16]Now a lady can't do nothin' [03:33.92]Without folks' tongues waggin' [03:37.17]Is this blood on the tree [03:39.25]Or is it autumn's red blaze [03:42.58]When the ground's soft for diggin' [03:45.17]ANd the rain will bring all this gloom [03:47.83]There's nothing wrong with a lady [03:51.19]Drinking alone in her room [03:53.04]But there was a murder in the red barn [03:55.76]A murder in the red barn