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To you it's another day
To me it's a grim reaping
Just another shooting star
Strung out on your wire
Prick my finger
On his virgin silver
He told me raw ginger
Carmalize me
Tombigbee Tombigbee
Help me hang these bones
Gotta hang these bones out to dry
He loves me
He loved me
Ravishingly low
Gotta hang these bones out to dry
Got a blackberry stain
And they're not even in season
If you're not yet a woman
You got no business playing this
chorus
So you get done
Then you get some
Sure enough it won't hold you for long
Then you say ride
This is all mine
But hasn't your donor card expired?
From Blueridge to Cattail
On the prairie
From fly over country back to Mississippi
I said, "go , man you go"
But you raise me twenty
I'm raising you five-
hundred treaties signed by your fathers' lies
Go, man, you go
'Cuz I'm trailing her tears
The ones you won't hold
You roll me a carpet
Roll me a carpet, boy
Roll me a carpet
From here to Oklahoma
chorus
To me it's a grim reaping
Just another shooting star
Strung out on your wire
Prick my finger
On his virgin silver
He told me raw ginger
Carmalize me
Tombigbee Tombigbee
Help me hang these bones
Gotta hang these bones out to dry
He loves me
He loved me
Ravishingly low
Gotta hang these bones out to dry
Got a blackberry stain
And they're not even in season
If you're not yet a woman
You got no business playing this
chorus
So you get done
Then you get some
Sure enough it won't hold you for long
Then you say ride
This is all mine
But hasn't your donor card expired?
From Blueridge to Cattail
On the prairie
From fly over country back to Mississippi
I said, "go , man you go"
But you raise me twenty
I'm raising you five-
hundred treaties signed by your fathers' lies
Go, man, you go
'Cuz I'm trailing her tears
The ones you won't hold
You roll me a carpet
Roll me a carpet, boy
Roll me a carpet
From here to Oklahoma
chorus
Lyrics submitted by merchantpierce
Tombigbee Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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Why oh why didn't she put this song on the album!!! 'Scarlet's Walk' isn't my favorite Tori Amos album, but this song is priceless and probably would have been (IMHO) the BEST song on the album had it been there. 'Mountain' should be on there too!
Anyway... does anybody have any ideas as to what the lyric "Roll me a carpet; roll me a carpet boy, roll me a carpet from here to Oklahoma" means? It's probably my favorite part of the song.
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Hey, thanks!<br /> <br /> That makes a lot of sense. She sounds very sarcastic when she sings it, at least in the performance video I saw, kind of upset actually. At first, I thought she was saying, "Rode me a carpet" which implies the same thing--flying as opposed to walking.