Sins Of My Father Tom Waits

axe Lies and rumors and the wind at my back Hand on the wheel gravel on the road Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m

The Return Of Jackie And Judy Tom Waits

> I left New York in 1949 To go across the country without a bad blame dime Montana in the cold cold fall Found my father in the gambling hall Father, Father where you been?

Home I'll Never Be Tom Waits

I left New York in 1949 To go across the country without a bad blame dime Montana in the cold cold fall Found my father in the gambling hall Father, Father where you been?

On The Road Tom Waits

I left New York in 1949 To go across the country without a bad blame dime Montana in the cold cold fall Found my father in the gambling hall Father, Father where you been?

Tell It To Me Tom Waits

> They say you're seeing someone, you're wearing his ring They say you laughed when you heard my name They say he takes you dancing, he holds you so near They say he'll buy you anything Tell me am I

Tom Waits Anouk

I was dreaming last night A figment of my brain On the downtown train And we had nowhere to go So we got off to take a walk In the pouring rain You said you rode it once And you would ride it again Please

It's Over Tom Waits

> You must have brought the bad weather with you The sky's the colour of lead All you've left me is a feather On an unmade bed It's always me whenever there's trouble The world does nothing but turn

What Keeps Mankind Alive Tom Waits

You gentlemen who think you have a mission To purge us of the seven deadly sins Should first sort out the basic food position Then start your preaching, that's where it begins You lot who preach restraint

Reeperbahn Tom Waits

Around the curve of The Parrot Bar A broken-down old movie star Hustling and Easterner Bringing out the beast in her A high dive on a swimming pool Filled with needles and with fools The memories are short

Down There By The Train Tom Waits

> There's a place I know where the train goes slow Where the sinner can be washed in the blood of the lamb There's a river by the trestle down by sinner's grove Down where the willow and the dogwood

Children's Story Tom Waits

> Once upon a time there was a poor child, with no father and no mother And everything was dead And no one was left in the whole world Everything was dead And the child went on search, day and night

Altar Boy Tom Waits

Now, I can order in Latin Make 'em au gratin, Joe I'm an old altar boy That's why I'm so depressed I never got the rest of the dream Just the ritual Now I'm habitual Majoring in crimes that are unspeakable

How's It Gonna End Tom Waits

He had 3 whole dollars, a worn out car And a wife who was leaving for good Lifes made of trouble, worry, pain and struggle She wrote 'good bye' in the dust on the hood They found a map of Missouri Lipstick

Take Care Of All My Children Tom Waits

Oh, take care of all my children Don't let 'em wander and roam Oh, take care of all of my children For I don't know when I'm comin' back home You can put all of my possessions here in Jesus' name nail

Tom Traubert's Blues Tom Waits

Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did, I've got what I paid for now See you tomorrow, hey Frank, can I borrow a couple of bucks from you To go waltzing Mathilda, waltzing Mathilda, You'll go waltzing

Sea Of Love Tom Waits

Come with me my love to the sea The sea of love I want to tell you How much I love you I'm drowning in a sea of love Do you remember the night we met?

Emotional Weather Report Tom Waits

corner of sunset and Alvarado Yeah I know things are tough all over When the thunder storms start increasing over the southeast And south central portions of my apartment, I get upset And a line of thunderstorms

whistlin' Past The Graveyard Tom Waits

well i come in on a night train with an arm full of box cars on the wings of a magpie cross a hooligan night and i busted up a chifforobe way out by the cocomo cooked up a mess a mulligan and got into

I Beg Your Pardon Tom Waits

I'm just a scarecrow with out you baby please don't disappear I beg your pardon dear I gotta a bottle full of trumpet a hatbox full of drum I beg your pardon dear I got upset I lost my head I didn't mean

Blue Valentines Tom Waits

She sends me blue valentines All the way from Philadelphia To mark the anniversary Of someone that I used to be And it feels just like theres A warrant out for my arrest Got me checkin in my rearview

Alice Tom Waits

It's dreamy weather we're on You waved your crooked wand Along an icy pond with a frozen moon A murder of silhouette crows I saw And the tears on my face And the skates on the pond They spell Alice I disappear

Pony Tom Waits

I've seen it all boys I've been all over Been everywhere in the Whole wide world I rode the high line With old blind Darby I danced real slow With Ida Jane I was full of wonder When I left Murfreesboro

The Last Rose Of Summer Tom Waits

I love the way The tattered clouds Go wind across the sky As summer goes And leave me With a tear in my eye I'm taking out my winter clothes My garden knows what's wrong The petals of my favorite rose

Green Grass Tom Waits

Lay your head where my heart used to be Hold the earth above me Lay down in the green grass Remember when you loved me Come closer don't be shy Stand beneath a rainy sky The moon is over the rise Think

Midnight Lullaby Tom Waits

Sing a song of sixpence, pocket full of rye Hush-a bye my baby, no need to be crying.

Wrong Side Of The Road Tom Waits

snitch take the buttons from a yellow jacket the feaather from a buzzard and thr blood from a bounty hunters cold black heart catch the tears of a widow in a thimble made of glass tell your mama and papa

Walk Away Tom Waits

Dot King was whittled from the bone of Cain With a little drop of poison in the red red blood She need a way to turn around the bend She said I want to walk away and start over again There are things I've

Little Drop of Poison Tom Waits

I like my town with a little drop of poison Nobody knows they're lining up to go insane I'm all alone, I smoke my friends down to the filter But I feel much cleaner after it rains She left in the

Barcarolle Tom Waits

A cloud lets go of the moon Her ribbons are all out of tune She is skating on the ice In a glass in the hands of a man That she kissed on a train And the children are all gone into town To get candy and

The Fall Of Troy Tom Waits

Why make my bed? Why come home at all?

16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six Tom Waits

I plugged 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six and a Black Crow snuck through a hole in the sky so I spent all my buttons on an old pack mule and I made me a ladder from a pawn shop marimba and I leaned it

Ruby's Arms Tom Waits

i will leave behind all of my clothes, i wore when i was with you, all i need's my railroad boots, and my leather jacket, as i say goodbye to ruby's arms, although my heart is breaking, i will steal away

LowDown Tom Waits

> She's a crooked Sheriff in a real straight town She opened the door shake shake the lights go down Clover honey and the Jimson Weed Red leather skirt way up above her knees Oh yeah, my baby's lowdown

I'll Be Gone Tom Waits

Tonight I'll shave the mountain I'll cut the hearts from pharoahs I pull the road off of the rise tear the memories from my eyes and in the morning I'll be gone I drink 1000 shipwrecks tonight I'll steal

We're All Mad Here Tom Waits

You can hang me in a bottle like a cat Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat Where the wailing of a baby Meets the footsteps of the dead We're all mad here As the devil sticks his flag into the mud

November Tom Waits

No shadow no stars no moon no cars November it only believes in a pile of dead leaves and a moon that's the color of bone No prayers for November to linger longer stick your spoon in the wall we'll slaughter

Ain't Goin Down To The Well Tom Waits

"Well they call me William The Pleaser I sold opium, fireworks and lead Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers When the shadows get long I'll be dead Now her hair was as black as a bucket of tar

Blind Love Tom Waits

they miss me, I never remember their names They say if you get far enough away, you'll be on your way back home Well, I'm at the station, and I can't get on the train Must be blind love, only kind of

Never Let Go Tom Waits

tied to the mast between water and wind Believe me, you'll never get hurt Now the ring's in the pawnshop, the rain's in the hole Down at the Five Points I stand I'll loose everything But I won't let go of

Mr. Siegal Tom Waits

i spent all my money in a mexican whorehouse, across the street from a catholic church, and then i wiped off my revolver, and i buttoned up my burgundy shirt, i shot the morning in the back, with my red

Somewhere Tom Waits

us Peace and quiet and open air Wait for us Somewhere There's a time for us Someday a time for us Time together with time to spare Time to learn, time to care Someday, somewhere We'll find a new way of

Lucinda Tom Waits

Well they call me William the Pleaser I sold opium, fireworks and lead Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers When the shadows get long I be dead Now her hair was as black as a bucket of tar Her skin

Day After Tomorrow Tom Waits

I got your letter today and I miss you all so much here I cant wait to see you all and Im counting the days here I still believe that theres gold at the end of the world And Ill come home to Illinois

Telephone Call From Istanbul Tom Waits

a medicine chest mediteromanian hotel back sprawled across a roll top desk the old monkey rode the blade on an overhead fan they paint the donkey blue if you pay I got a telephone call from Istanbul my

Goin\' Out West Tom Waits

Well I\'m goin\' out west Where the wind blows tall \'Cause Tony Franciosa Used to date my ma They got some money out there They\'re giving it away I\'m gonna do what I want Do what I want And

Bottom Of The World Tom Waits

My Daddy told me, lookin back The best friend you'll have is a railroad track So when I was 13 I said, I'm rollin' my own, And I'm leaving Missouri and I'm never coming home And I'm lost And I'm lost I'm

Old Boyfriends Tom Waits

Old Boyfriends, Lost in the pocket of your overcoat, Like burned out lite bulbs on a Ferris Wheel. Old Boy friends, You remember the kinds of cars they drove, Parking in an orange grove.

Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis Tom Waits

Hey Charlie, I'm pregnant And living on 9th Street Right above a dirty bookstore off Euclid Avenue And I stopped takin’ dope And I quit drinkin’ whiskey And my old man plays the trombone And works

Big Joe And Phantom 309 Tom Waits

Well you see I happened to be back on the east coast A few years back tryin' to make me a buck Like everybody else, well you know Times get hard and well I got down on my luck And I got tired of just roamin

First Kiss Tom Waits

like an alligator egg was mounted up front on the hood And she had an Easter bonnet that had been signed by Tennessee Ernie Ford And she always had saw dust in her hair And she cut two holes in the back of