Big Black Mariah Tom Waits

to the floor Here come the Big Black Mariah, here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Mariah, I seen the big black Ford Well he's all boxed up on a red belle dame Hunted Black Johnny

Underground Tom Waits

Rattle big black bones in the danger zone there's a rumblin' groan down below there's a big dark town it's a place I've found there's a world going on Underground they're alive, they're awake while the

Filipino Box Spring Hog Tom Waits

Well I hung on to Mary's stump I danced with a soldier's glee With a rum soaked crook And a big fat laugh I spent my last dollar on thee I saw Bill Bones, gave him a yell Kehoe spiked the nog With

Black Market Baby Tom Waits

back off the road There's a man with a lantern And he carries her soul A coal stove and a bed A skillet and a hound She drove a camel through A needle In this sinking board walk town She's my Black

The Black Rider Tom Waits

Come on a long with the Black Rider We'll have a gay old time Lay down in the web of the black spider I'll drink your blood like wine So come on in It ain't no sin Take off your skin And dance around your

Big In Japan Tom Waits

I got the style but not the grace I got the clothes but not the face I got the bread but not the butter I got the winda but not the shutter But I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan But heh I'm big in

Tom Waits Anouk

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 take me with you Tom

Big Joe And Phantom 309 Tom Waits

The lights of an old semi topped the hill You should of seen me smile when I Heard them air brakes come on, and I climbed up in that cab where I Knew it'd be warm at the wheel Well at the wheel sat a big

Spidey's Wild Ride Tom Waits

> The smoke from the battle fish and the rain soaked through and the wheelman left the shore and barns tumbled and silos flew across fifteen miles bad road tar And big Bull Trometer hung on to the side

Cemetery Polka Tom Waits

Uncle Vernon, Uncle Vernon, independent as a hog on ice He's a big shot down there at the slaughterhouse Plays accordion for Mr.

LowDown Tom Waits

ain't no way back I been told Well she's a story they all tell She's a rebel, she's a yell Oh yeah, my baby's lowdown White heat in a cold rain I'm a mergin here in your mergin lane Jockey La Fayette, Big

You Can't Unring A Bell Tom Waits

You can't unring a bell, junior It'll cost ya to get out of this one, junior Cause he's got big plans That don't include you take it like a man cause you, you can't unring a bell, sucker you'll need an

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

Rain Dogs Tom Waits

pours strong and thin, beat out the dustman with the rain dogs Aboard a shipwreck train, give my umbrella to the rain dogs For I am a rain dog, too Oh, how we danced with the Rose of Tralee Her long hair black

Watch Her Disappear Tom Waits

ebony curls Moving in a yellow bedroom light The air is wet with sound The faraway yelping of a wounded dog And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black

Top Of The Hill Tom Waits

on the ride up (Uh-huh-huh) On the top of the hill I'm only going to the top of the hill New corn yellow and slaughterhouse red The birds keep singin' baby after you're dead I'm gonna miss you plenty big

Lucky Day Overture Tom Waits

Ladies and gentlemen Harry's Harbour Bizarre is proud to present Under the Big Top tonight Human Oddities That's right You'll see the Three Headed Baby You'll see Hitler's brain See Lea Graff the German

Metropolitan Glide Tom Waits

Dothe Metropolitan Glide The low bottom of the China moon The black swan and the way too soon Ace pocket and the dog bone gone The peacock and the mean black swan The rain shower and high heeled shoe Bombay

Blow Wind Blow Tom Waits

Mary's on the black top There's a husband in the dog house In the middle of a shakedown She got quiet as a church mouose She found Raleigh's on the dashboard Sugar daddy caught a polocar Ain't no solitary

Shiny Things Tom Waits

Leave me alone you big ol' moon, The light you cast is just a lighter. You're like the crow, 'cause if it goes, You're dressed to go, you guessed, I know, You'll always bring them shiny things.

November Tom Waits

linger longer stick your spoon in the wall we'll slaughter them all November has tied me to an old dead tree get word to April to rescue me November's cold chain Made of wet boots and rain and shiny black

A Good Man Is Hard To Find Tom Waits

Well, I always play Russian Roulette in my head It's seventeen black or twenty-nine red How far from the gutter; how far from the pew I will always remember to forget about you A good man is hard to find

We're All Mad Here Tom Waits

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 Mrs Carol has run off with Reverend Judd Hell is such a lonely place And your big

Lowside Of The Road Tom Waits

I'm on a black elevator Goin down Little Joe from Kokomo It rattles to the ground The dice is laughin at the man that he throwed Your rollin over to the Lowside of the road.

Train Song Tom Waits

Louis On the Kansas City line and I drunk up all my money that I borrowed every time and I fell down at the derby and now the night's black as a crow It was a train that took me away from here but a train

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

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

Get Behind The Mule Tom Waits

Molly be damned smote Jimmy the Harp With a horrid little pistol and a lariat She's goin to the bottom And she's goin down the drain Said she wasn't big enough to carry it She got to get behind the

Rosie Tom Waits

And the moon's all up, full and big, apricot tips in an indigo sky, And I've been loving you, Rosie, since the day I was born And I'll love you, Rosie 'til the day I die. Rosie, why do you evade?

Sins Of My Father Tom Waits

gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond God all mighty for righteousness sake Humiliation of our fallen state Written in the book of tubold Cain A long black

Dog Door Tom Waits

coming through the dog door She got me coming through the dog door Got me a pitchfork Oh step-ladders You oughta walk away Well you can't, but you oughta Climb the brick up to the stairs She got long black

In The Neighborhood Tom Waits

on the register side and the goddamn delivery trucks they make too much noise and we don't get our butter delivered no more In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood Well Big

Little Boy Blue Tom Waits

your behavior And rattle your cane With a bottle of bourbon Good-bye Little boy blow Lost little bo peep She fell thru a hole in the nest Now ain't it peculiar That she's finally cooled your Big

Shake It Tom Waits

Strip Poker Motel Got a small blue tail Hot ice, cold cash I never been no good at staying out of jail Wheel spin, roulette Who's giving, don't get Ripped shirt, black eye Tuxedo, bow tie Dark sound, straight

Chocolate Jesus Tom Waits

a cup of gold See only a chocolate Jesus Can satisfy my soul (Solo) When the weather gets rough And it's whiskey in the shade It's best to wrap your savior Up in cellophane He flows like the big

Buzz Fledderjohn Tom Waits

I stood on the roof, stood toward dark To get a better look at the Fledderjons' lawn Big sharp pistols, ammo too Nothing but books about World War II Rottweiler, Dobermann, a Pinkerton guard I ain't allowed

The Fall Of Troy Tom Waits

> It's the same with men as with horses and dogs Nothing wants to die Evelyn James they killed in a game With guns too big for their hands Just off St.

Reeperbahn Tom Waits

head off in the Reeperbahn Now little Hans was always strange Wearing womens underthings His father beat him but he wouldn't change He ran off with a man one day Now his lingerie is all the rage In the black

Ice Cream Man Tom Waits

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five Sidewalk sundae strawberry surprise, I got a cherry popsicle right on time A big stick, mamma, that'll blow your mind 'Cause I'm the ice cream

It's Over Tom Waits

over, it's over, it's over I'm getting dressed in the dark Our story ends before it begins I always confess to everyones sins The nail gets hammered down And it's over, let it go So don't go and make a big

God's Away On Business Tom Waits

Instrumental BreakGoddamn ther's always such A big temptation To be good, To be good Tere's always free cheddar in A mousetrap, baby It's a deal, it's a deal God's away, God's away, God's away On Business

Puttin' On The Dog Tom Waits

, you'll never resist Tell me that you love me Tell me that you're mine We're putting on the dog tonight Putting on the dog tonight, alright Well we'll be going to a sooky jump it's rain and it pours Big

First Kiss Tom Waits

She drove a big ol' Lincoln with suicide doors and a sewing machine in the back And a light bulb that looked like an alligator egg was mounted up front on the hood And she had an Easter bonnet that had

Potter's Field Tom Waits

well you can buy me a drink and i'll tell you what i seen and i'll give you a bargain from the edge of a maniac's dream that buys a black widow spider with a riddle in his yarn that's clinging to the furrow

Bottom Of The World Tom Waits

I'm lost at the bottom of the world I'm handcuffed to the Bishop and the barbershop liar I'm lost at the bottom of the world Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron On Telapia fish cakes and fried black

Hold On Tom Waits

How I wish you were still here with me Well, you build it up, you wreck it down You burn your mansion to the ground When there's nothing left to keep you here, when You're falling behind in this Big

Mr. Siegal Tom Waits

other side of the nevada line, where they live hard die young, and have a good lookin' corpse every time, well the pit-boss said i should keep movin', this is where you go when you die, and so i shot a black

Wrong Side Of The Road Tom Waits

and the stones from a ditch and wash em down with bilge water and you say you'll never snitch take the buttons from a yellow jacket the feaather from a buzzard and thr blood from a bounty hunters cold black

Eyeball Kid Tom Waits

handsome He'll never be tall He said "all you got to do is Book me into Carnegie Hall" Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid He's just a little bitty thing He's just a little guy But women go crazy For the big

The One That Got Away Tom Waits

Johnny's got to pay, And sent him home talking 'bout the one that got away Could have been on Easy Street, could have been a wheel, With irons in the fire and all them business deals But the last of the big-time