On A Foggy Night Tom Waits

It was upon a foggy night, an abandoned road In a twilight mirror mirage With no indication Of any kind of service station Or an all night garage, I was misinformed I was misdirected 'cause the interchange

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

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

The Ghosts Of Saturday Night Tom Waits

A cab combs the snake, Tryin' to rake in that last night's fare, And a solitary sailor Who spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers...

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

Drunk On The Moon Tom Waits

Tight-slacked clad girls on the graveyard shift Neath the cement stroll Catch the midnight drift Forgot you and Charlie In the newspaperness Grifting hot-horse tips On who's running the best

Muriel Tom Waits

muriel since you left town the clubs closed down and there's one more burned out lamppost down on the main street down where we used to stroll and muriel i still hit all the same old haunts and you follow

Shake It Tom Waits

road Get lost, get loaded Enlisted men, off duty Stolen clouds, dark beauty Cold gun, wild rose Night clerk, door closed Lie down baby Your love is a faucet Called China, cell phone Chun King, not home

Coney Island Baby Tom Waits

Every night she comes To take me out to dreamland When I'm with her, I'm the richest Man in the town She's a rose, she's the pearl She's the spin on my world All the stars make their wishes on her eyes

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

Telephone Call From Istanbul Tom Waits

All night long on the broken glass livin in 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

The Heart Of Saturday Night Tom Waits

Well you gassed her up Behind the wheel With your arm around your sweet one In your Oldsmobile Barrelin' down the boulevard You're looking for the heart of Saturday night And you got paid on Friday And

Emotional Weather Report Tom Waits

Well we are talking about late night and early morning low clouds With a chance of fog, chance of showers into the afternoon With variable high cloudiness and gusty winds Gusty winds at times around the

Watch Her Disappear Tom Waits

Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair That rose in strangled ebony curls Moving

Downtown Tom Waits

red pants and the sugarman in, the temple street gloom, drinkin' chivas regal in a four dollar room, just another dead soldier in a powder blue night, sugarman says baby everything's alright, goin'

Pasties And A G-String Tom Waits

Smelling like a brewery, looking like a tramp, I ain't got a quarter, got a postage stamp Been five o'clock shadow boxing all around the town, Talking with the old man, sleeping on the ground Bazanti bootin

Semi Suite Tom Waits

Well you hate those diesels rollin' And those Friday nights out bowlin' When he's off for a twelve hour lay over night You wish you had a dollar For every time he hollered That he's leavin' And he's never

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

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

'Til The Money Runs Out Tom Waits

check this strange beverage that falls out from the sky, splashin' bagdad on the hudson in panther martin's eyes, he's high and outside wearin' candy apple red, scarlet gave him twenty seven stitches in

Goin\' Out West Tom Waits

ma They got some money out there They\'re giving it away I\'m gonna do what I want Do what I want And I\'m gonna get paid Little brown sausages Lying in the sand I ain\'t no extra baby I\'m a

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?

Heigh Ho Tom Waits

> Well, we dig dig dig Well, we dig in our mine the whole day through Dig dig dig, that is what we like to do And it ain't no trick to get rich quick If you dig dig dig, with a shovel and a pick Dig

Jersey Girl Tom Waits

ll take you on all the rides Down the shore everything？s all right You with your baby on a Saturday night Don？t you know that my dreams come true when I？m walkin?

Poor Edward Tom Waits

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

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?

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

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

Burma Shave Tom Waits

licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks and the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through he was a

Invitation To The Blues Tom Waits

Well she's up against the register with an apron and a spatula, Yesterday's deliveries, tickets for the bachelors She's a moving violation from her conk down to her shoes, Well, it's just an invitation

A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun Tom Waits

But it's raining, it's pouring Didn't bring a sweater Nebraska never lets you come back home No Hollywood wine by the thrifty mart sign Any night I'll be willin' to bet There's a young girl With sweet

Potter's Field Tom Waits

across the blacktop of my cheek like that and then ducks beneath the brim of a fugitive's hat and you'll learn why liquor makes a stool pigeon rat on every face that ever left his shadow down on saint

In The Neighborhood Tom Waits

Well the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan and the whinin' dog pidgeons by the steeple bell rope and the dogs tipped the garbage pails over last night and there's always construction work

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?

Widow's Grove Tom Waits

your wrist corsage And you waltzed too slowly, too slowly you waltzed With that girl from Widow's Grove Oh, I'd follow you to the river, that washes out to the sea Through the wind, through the rain of a

What's He Building? Tom Waits

With that hook light On the stairs. What's he building In there... I'll tell you one thing He's not building a playhouse for The children what's he building In there?

Romeo Is Bleeding Tom Waits

Romeo is bleeding But not so as you'd notice He's over on 18th street as usual Lookin' so hard against the hood of his car And puttin' out a cigarette in his hand For all the pachucos at the pumps

Lucky Day Overture Tom Waits

the dog face boy I'm Milton Malone, the human skeleton See Grace McDaniel's The mule faced woman And she's the homeliest woman in the world Under the Big Top tonight Never before seen And if you have a

Army Ants Tom Waits

The Ribbed Pine Borer is a longhorn beetle, their antenna's are half the length of their body and they feed on dead red pine.

Wrong Side Of The Road Tom Waits

put a dead cat on the railroad tracks when the wolf bains blooming by the tressel and get the eyeball of a rooster and the stones from a ditch and wash em down with bilge water and you say you'll never

Goodnight Irene Tom Waits

Last Saturday night I got married. Me and my wife settled down. Now, me and my wife are parted. Gonna take a little stroll downtown.

Tom Traubert`s Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen) 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

Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen) (LP Version) Tom Waits

Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did, I 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

Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen) 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

Putnam County Tom Waits

stretched out like an asphalt dance floor Where all the old timers in bib jeans and store bought boots Were hunkerin' down in the dirt to lie about their lives And the places that they'd been And they suck on

Fish In The Jailhouse Tom Waits

hammerhead shark Well, a steelhead salmon or a mud bank carp I said, one side dull, and then the other side sharp And on Saturday night I'll be in Central Park Fish in the jailhouse tonight, all right,

Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) 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 Matilda, waltzing Matilda You\'ll

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

Sins Of My Father Tom Waits

God said don't give me your Tin horn prayers Don't buy roses off the street down there Took it all and took the dirt road home Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair Night is falling like a bloody

Road To Peace Tom Waits

> Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old, He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.