(words & music by Doc Pomus - Mort Shuman)
Well, I dated your big sister
And took her to a show
I went for some candy
Along came Jim Dandy
And they snuck right out of the door
Ev'ry time I see your sister
Well she's got somebody new
She's mean and she's evil
Like that old Boll Weevil
Guess I'll try my luck with you
Well, I used to pull your pigtails
And pinch your turned-up nose
But you been a growin'
And baby, it's been showin'
From your head down to your toes
Little sister, don't you
Little sister, don't you
Little sister,
Shake
Well It's
Sundown in the sinkhole
It's sunrise up on the hill
The thieves are sleeping in Hades' bum
And they're keeping very still
It's summer in Winter Haven
And the earth she's caving in
There's no water on the land
And it's all because of sin
Mary lost her bedroom
When her porches all fell in
Kissed his yard goodbye
And it's all because of sin
No-one must be told about this thieving in the night
Satan stole the landscape
It was gone with the morning light
It's sundown in the sinkhole
It's sunrise up on the hill
The thieves are sleeping in Hades' bum
And they're keeping very still
It's summer in Winter Haven
And the earth she's caving in
There's no water on the land
And it's all because of sin
Seven
buried underground
Seven cranes went after them
Six could not be found
a swimming pool
Are lost I am afeared
The seventh crane approached the hole
Then it disappeared
It's sundown in the sinkhole
It's sunrise up on the hill
The thieves are sleeping in Hades' bum
And they're keeping very still
It's summer in Winter Haven
And the earth she's caving in
There's no water on the land
And it's all because of sin
Saint Augustine in his slumber
Feels the depths of his own soul
Saint Bernadette in her fields
Her body beyond control
The flowers of Narcissus are nailed
To the underworld door
And Hades had the medicine
That he keeps on the floor
It's sundown in the sinkhole
It's sunrise up on the hill
The thieves are sleeping in Hades' bum
And they're keeping very still
It's summer in Winter Haven
And the earth she's caving in
There's no water on the land
And it's all because of sin