Tom Waits-Swordfishtrombone

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[virgil283]

The best Tom Waits song ever....{3 min.}

[virgil283]

- Swordfishtrombone Lyrics

Well he came home from the war with a party in his head and modified Brougham DeVille and a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings and a mad dog that wouldn't sit still he went and took up with a Salvation Army Band girl who played dirty water on a swordfishtrombone he went to sleep at the bottom of Tenkiller lake and he said "gee, but it's great to be home."

Well he came home from the war with a party in his head and an idea for a fireworks display and he knew that he'd be ready with a stainless steel machete and a half a pint of Ballentine's each day and he holed up in room above a hardware store cryin' nothing there but Hollywood tears and he put a spell on some poor little Crutchfield girl and stayed like that for 27 years

Well he packed up all his expectations he lit out for California with a flyswatter banjo on his knee with a lucky tiger in his angel hair and benzedrine for getting there they found him in a eucalyptus tree lieutenant got him a canary bird and shaked her head with every word and Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song and he got 20 years for lovin' her from some Oklahoma governor said everything this Doughboy does is wrong

Now some say he's doing the obituary mambo and some say he's hanging on the wall perhaps this yarn's the only thing that holds this man together some say he was never here at all

Some say they saw him down in Birmingham, sleeping in a boxcar going by and if you think that you can tell a bigger tale I swear to God you'd have to tell a lie.........

[Migraine]

Whatever that ole boy is smokin’, gimme some!

[Wordkraft]

I’ve always liked “Small Change Got Rained On With His Own .38.”

[bigbob]

better than “Fire Sale”? No way.

[drypowder]

I’ve always liked “Small Change Got Rained On With His Own .38.”

here it is, its the best, what an exceptional artist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1iI6FMgeWc

[castlebrew]

...pasties and a G-string, beer and a shot...

[Ransomed]

I wonder if Ron Perlman has a Tom Waits look or if it’s the other way around. Weirdo looking peas in a weirdo pod, being awesome.

Freegards

[Lancey Howard]

My favorite Tom Waits songs are ‘Fish in the Jailhouse’, ‘Lucinda’, and ‘Two Sisters’.

[gattaca]

Step Right Up, love it.