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

That's The Way Tom Waits

way the stomach rumbles That's the way the bee bumbles That's the way the needle pricks That's the way the glue sticks That's the way the potato mashes That's the way the pan flashes That's the way the market

Big Black Mariah Tom Waits

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 with a blind man's cane A yellow bullet

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

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

In The Neighborhood Tom Waits

we don't get our butter delivered no more In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood Well Big Mambo's kicking his old grey hound and the kids can't get ice cream 'cause the market

Metropolitan Glide Tom Waits

Knocky Parker told Bowlegged Sal They all know how to kick it in Cal They're playing this dope and this-a money tune Dancing baby with a 7 mile broom Things are bulging out the rafters like hell Down there

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

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

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

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

Filipino Box Spring Hog Tom Waits

Mare Donned himself with chicken fat Sawin on a jaw bone violin there Kathleen was sittin down In little reds recovery room In her criminal underwear bra I was naked to the waist With my fierce black

Lie To Me Tom Waits

> (You got to) Lie to me baby (You got to) Lie to me baby (You got to) Lie to me baby (You got to) Lie to me baby - move on I know you got another Jockey at home Let me be your rider till your real

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

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

Coney Island Baby Tom Waits

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 She's my Coney Island Baby

Tom Edison Diggy

Big Benjamin's, my etiquette Black shades on, black excellence Big ego, yea settlin' Turn the lights on, Tom Edison Oh, we on we on like we are jelly beans We on on on Tom Edison Oh, we on

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

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.

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

'Til The Money Runs Out Tom Waits

watch, i sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch, some one tell those chinamen on telegraph canyon road, when you're on the bill with the spoon there ain't no time to unload, so bye bye baby

This One's From The Heart Tom Waits

Oh baby, this one's from the heart The shadows in the road look like a railroad track. I wonder if he's (ever) really comin' back. The moon's a yellow stain across the sky.

I'll Shoot The Moon Tom Waits

I'll shoot the moon Right out of the sky For you baby I'll be the pennies On your eyes For you babyI want to take you Out to the fair Here's a red rose Ribbon for your hairI'll shoot the moon Right out

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

Please Call Me Baby Tom Waits

just like a star Left a trail behind You spitted You slammed out the door If this is love, we're crazy 'Cause we fight like cats and dogs I just know there's got to be more Please call me, baby

Baby Gonna Leave Me Tom Waits

Until my feet got wet I stood by the faucet Till the sink filled up I stood by the window Until the moon came up My baby's bought a ticket Long as my clothes line Na na na na, na-na-na Na na na na My baby

Please Call Me, Baby Tom Waits

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 me, baby

You Can Never Hold Back Spring Tom Waits

You can never hold back spring -Tom waits- You can never hold back spring You can be sure that I will never stop believing The blushing rose that

Picture In A Frame Tom Waits

calling in my Sunday best I come calling in my Sunday best I come calling in my Sunday best Every since I put your picture In a frame I'm gonna love you Till the wheels come off Oh yea I love you baby

Ice Cream Man Tom Waits

Baby, missed me in the alley, baby, don't you fret Come back around and don't forget, When you're tired and you're hungry and you want something cool, Got something better than a swimming pool 'Cause

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

Depot, Depot Tom Waits

idle I can't claim title to a single memory He offered me a key Cause opportunity don't knock He has no tongue and she cannot talk You're gonna shuffle when you walk At the depot This peeping-Tom

New Coat Of Paint Tom Waits

Let's put a new coat of paint On this lonesome old town Set em' up, we'll be knockin' 'em down You wear a dress Baby I'll a tie We'll laugh at that old bloodshot moon In that burgundy sky All our scribbled

Midnight Lullaby Tom Waits

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

God's Away On Business Tom Waits

I'd sell your heart to the junkman baby For a buck, for a buck If you're looking for someone To pull you out of that ditch You're out of luck, you're out of luck The ship is sinking The ship is sinking

I Can't Wait To Get Off Work Tom Waits

And I can't wait to get off work and see my baby, She said she'd leave the porch light on for me.

Clang Boom Steam Tom Waits

Well my baby's so fine Even her car looks good From behind Well my baby's so fine Even her car looks good From behind But the train that took My baby... It went clang, boom and steam

Union Square Tom Waits

time is always money for the boys on Union Square Go on and bust your ass 'til doomsday, don't forget to say your prayers Someone's riding down the backstreet, said papa got a brand new slack And your baby

All The Time Tom Waits

I wouldn't waste a gallon on you out there And I got all the time in the world A bridge is only there for you to jump off of And there ain't no rain clouds that are blue I do declare my independence Baby

Top Of The Hill Tom Waits

Stop and get me 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

Sins Of My Father Tom Waits

The star spangled glitter of his one good eye Everybody knows that the game was rigged Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig Dark town alleys been hiding you Long bell tolling is your waterloo Oh baby

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

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'

Jersey Girl Tom Waits

m gonna take that ride Across the river to the Jersey side Take my baby to the carnival And I？ll take you on all the rides Down the shore everything？

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