Sweeper, little sweeper boy

'Cause you's got the wig on you

Sweeper, little sweeper boy

Sweeper

Yellow is the color of my true love's crossbow

Yellow is the color of the sun

Black is the color of a strangled rainbow

Just the color of my love

Black is the color of my true love's arrow

Just the color of a human's blood

You've got a shot of shampoo

Though it was made thirty years ago

Yeah, you still got a shot of shampoo

Though you were made twenty years ago

Now speak up, little sweeper boy

They are hard of hearing

Anything that anyone has to say

I say yellow is the color of my true love's crossbow

Yellow like the color of the sun

And black is the color of a strangled rainbow

Just the color of my love

Black is the color of my true love's arrow

Exactly the color of my blood

But I don't want to die

However dark tomorrow may be

Hold me a perfect square of sky

You are worth your weight in gold

You are worth your weight in sorrow

Baby, though you'll never know why