I Wish I Was In New Orleans Tom Waits

Well, I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see it in my dreams, Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me Hoist up a few tall cool ones, play some pool and listen To that tenor saxophone

Tango Till They're Sore Tom Waits

Then the Cubans hit the floor And they drive along the pipeline They tango till they're sore They take apart their nightmares And they leave them by the door: Let me fall out the window With confetti in

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

Widow's Grove Tom Waits

> I met you in the saddle, rode you in the dust Held your hand to the heavens, pulled your heart to the earth There was something that blinded me more than the mist And the breath of the cottonwood

Circus Tom Waits

We put up our tent on a dark green knoll, outside of town by the train tracks and a seagull dump Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel and her 'Marvellous Pigs In Satin' We pounded our stakes in the ground

Please Wake Me Up Tom Waits

I put my chips on her shoulder running in the carnival time she bought the things that I told her they made her eyes sparkle and shine together we'll ring in the new year I know that she'll be my queen

Ain't Goin Down To The Well Tom Waits

Skin was as white as a cuttlefish bone I left Texas to follow Lucinda Now I'll never see heaven or home I made a wish on silver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars Like a kid who

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

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

Fannin Street Tom Waits

> There's a crooked street in Houston town, It's a well born path I've traveled down Now there's ruin in my name, I wish I never got off the train, I wished I'd listened to the words you said.

Gun Street Girl Tom Waits

a hundred dollars off a slaughterhouse Joe Brought a brand new Michigan twenty-gauge He got all liquored up on that road house corn Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette A hole in the hood

Kentucky Avenue Tom Waits

Eddie graces buick got 4 bullet holes in the side Charlie De lisle sittin' at the top of an avocado tree Mrs Storm'll stab you with a steak knife if you step on her lawn I got a half pack of lucky strikes

The Briar And The Rose Tom Waits

I fell asleep down by the stream and there I had the strangest dream down by Brennan Glen there grows a briar and a rose There a tree in the forest but I don？

Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis Tom Waits

out at the track He says that he loves me Even though it’s not his baby He says that he'll raise him up Like he would his own son And he gave me a ring That was worn by his mother And he takes

Poncho's Lament Tom Waits

Well the stairs sound so lonely without you And I ain't made my bed in a week Coffee stains on the paper I'm writing And I'm too choked up inside to speak And Yes, I know our differences pulled us apart

Please Call Me, Baby Tom Waits

The evening fell just like a star Left a trail behind You spit as you slammed out the door If this is love we're crazy As we fight like cats and dogs But I just know there's got to be more So please call

Please Call Me Baby Tom Waits

call me, baby Wherever you are It's too cold to be out walkin' in the streets We do crazy things when we're wounded Everyone's pretty insane I don't want you catchin' your death of cold Out

Jayne's Blue Wish Tom Waits

the roofs to the sky There's a hole overhead It's only the moon Will there ever be a tree Grown from the seeds I've sown Life is a path lit only by the light of those I've loved By the light of those I

Downtown Train Tom Waits

Outside another yellow moon punched a hole in the nighttime, yes I climb through the window and down the street shining like a new dime the downtown trains are full with all those Brooklyn girls they try

Picture In A Frame Tom Waits

Sun come up it was blue and gold Sun come up it was blue and gold Sun come up it was blue and gold Ever since I put your picture In a frame.

Bad Liver And A Broken Heart Tom Waits

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart And I don't have a drinking problem, 'cept when I can't get a drink And I wish you'd a-known her, we were

Good Old World (Waltz) Tom Waits

When I was a boy, the moon was a pearl the sun a yellow gold. But when I was a man, the wind blew cold the hills were upside down.

Opening Montage Tom Waits

[Tom Waits:] I wish I had a dollar for each time I took a chance [Crystal Gayle:] On all those two bit Romeos who counterfeit romance [Tom Waits:] Somehow always thinking of the last time I fell down

Lonely Tom Waits

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely eyes, lonely face, lonely lonely in your place. Lonely, lonely, lonely eyes, lonely face, lonely lonely in your place.

Table Top Joe Tom Waits

I knew one day One, one, two, one, two, three Well my mama didn't want me On the day I was born I was born without a body I got nothing but scorn But I always loved music All I had was my hands I dreamed

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

Big Joe And Phantom 309 Tom Waits

' and bummin' Around, so I started thumbin' my way Back to my old hometown You know I made quite a few miles In the first couple of days, and I Figured I'd be home in a week if my Luck held out this way

Georgia Lee Tom Waits

Cold was the night, hard was the ground They found her in a small grove of trees Lonesome was the place where Georgia was found She's too young to be out On the street. Why wasn't God watching?

The Part You Throw Away Tom Waits

That is the part you throw away I want that beggars eyes a winning horse A tidy Mexican divorce St.

Cold Water Tom Waits

Well I woke up this morning With the cold water With the cold water With the cold water Woke up this morning With the cold water With the cold water With the cold Police at the station And they

Hold On Tom Waits

They hung a sign up in out town "if you live it up, you won't live it down" So, she left Monte Rio, son Just like a bullet leaves a gun With charcoal eyes and Monroe hips She went and took that California

A Sight For Sore Eyes Tom Waits

hey sight for sore eyes it's a long time no see workin hard hardly workin hey man you know me water under the bridge didya see my new car well it's bought and it's payed for parked outside of the bar and

Train Song Tom Waits

Well I broke down in E. St.

I'll Take New York Tom Waits

this dream to the end of the line I'm goin places I'll take a ride Up to the Riverside I'll take NY I'll let it happen I'll pop the cork tear off the wrappin' I'll make a splash on the Hudson that's how I

Lost In The Harbour Tom Waits

Over here the ladies all want sweet perfume But there's never a rose And over the roses are frightened to bloom So they never can grow And over here they need wool For weaving their baby's new clothes

San Diego Serenade Tom Waits

I never saw the mornin' 'til I stayed up all night I never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out the light I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long I never heard the melody until I needed the

Just The Right Bullets Tom Waits

There is a light in the forest There is a face in the tree I'll pull you out of the And the first one's always free You can never go hunting With just a flintlock and a hound You won't go home with a bunting

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

Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards) Tom Waits

I'm singing this song, it's time it was sung I've been putting it off for a while, But it's harder by now, 'cause the truth is so clear That I cry when I'm seeing you smile.

Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) Tom Waits

I'm singing this song, it's time it was sung I've been putting it off for a while, But it's harder by now, 'cause the truth is so clear That I cry when I'm seeing you smile.

Rosie Tom Waits

Well I'm sitting on a windowsill, blowing my horn Nobody's up except the moon and me, And a lazy old tomcat on a midnight spree All that you left me was a melody. Rosie, why do you evade?

Red Shoes By The Drugstore Tom Waits

She wore red shoes by the news-stand As the rain splashed the nickel Spilled like chablis along the midway There's a little blue jay In a red dress, on a sad night One straw in a root-beer A compact with

Trampled Rose Tom Waits

Long way going to Get my medicine Sky's the autumn grey of a lonely wren Piano from a window played Gone tomorrow, gone yesterday I found it in the street At first I did not see Lying at my feet A trampled

I'm Still Here Tom Waits

"You haven't looked at me that way in years You dreamed me up and left me here How long was I dreaming for What was it you wanted me for You haven't looked at me that way in years Your watch has stopped

Shiver Me Timbers Tom Waits

I'm leavin' my fam'ly And leavin' my friends My body's at home But my heart's in the wind Where the clouds are like headlines On a new front page sky My tears are salt water And the moon's full and high

Poor Edward Tom Waits

On the back of his head he had another face Was it a woman's face or a young girl?

Eyeball Kid Tom Waits

Well Zenora Bariella And Coriander Pyle They had sixteen children In the usual style They had a curio museum And they had no guile All they ever wanted Was a show biz child So on the 7th of Dec

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?

The Pontiac Tom Waits

Then the u-joints went out on that and the bushings and then your mother wanted to trade it in on the Tornado, so we got the Tornado. God, I hated the color of that son of a bitch.