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Heard about circumstances
Heard about the Devil’s son-in-law
Heard about the high sheriff from Hell
Heard about the Great Migration
Heard about the barrel house
Ragtime in the parlor room downstairs
Can you hear the hum outside the door?
Can you hear the hum outside the door?
Can you hear the hum outside the door?
Can you hear the hum, can you hear the hum?
Steady row and jelly jaw
Heard about the Hooverville
Heard about the long gone stevedores
Heard about prohibition
Heard about the Sukey Jump
Wasn’t there to hear “Come on in my Kitchen”
Can you hear the strum outside the door?
Can you hear the strum outside the door?
Can you hear the strum outside the door?
Can you hear the strum, can you hear the strum?
Heard about a Gaslight Square
Heard about down Deep Morgan
Heard you can’t find Mill Creek anywhere
Heard about circumstances
Heard about the Devil’s son-in-law
Heard about the high sheriff from Hell
Can you hear the drum outside the door?
Can you hear the drum outside the door?
Can you hear the drum outside the door?
Can you hear the drum, can you hear the drum?
Heard about the Devil’s son-in-law
Heard about the high sheriff from Hell
Heard about the barrel house
Ragtime in the parlor room downstairs
Can you hear the hum outside the door?
Can you hear the hum outside the door?
Can you hear the hum, can you hear the hum?
Heard about the Hooverville
Heard about the long gone stevedores
Heard about the Sukey Jump
Wasn’t there to hear “Come on in my Kitchen”
Can you hear the strum outside the door?
Can you hear the strum outside the door?
Can you hear the strum, can you hear the strum?
Heard about down Deep Morgan
Heard you can’t find Mill Creek anywhere
Heard about the Devil’s son-in-law
Heard about the high sheriff from Hell
Can you hear the drum outside the door?
Can you hear the drum outside the door?
Can you hear the drum, can you hear the drum?
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This is a song that looks back over the history of St. Louis, Missouri, the area from which Jay Farrar hails. Several of the references in the lyrics as shown are incorrect. "Suki Jung," for example, should be "Sukey Jump" a style of African-american dance music. "Dime D. Morgan," is also incorrect. The reference is to a neighborhood in St. Louis called "Deep Morgan" (originally Irish, then black) and "New Creek" should be "Mill Creek" A black neighborhood between Union & Grand streets that was demolished during Urban renewal.