A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun Tom Waits

the bus stop And they do good business every time it rains For little girls with nothing in their jeans Pretty blue wishes, sweet little dreams And it's raining, it's pouring The old man is snoring Now

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

Jockey Full Of Bourbon Tom Waits

Edna Million in a drop dead suit Dutch Pink on a downtown train Two-dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot I'm in the corner on the pouring rain Sixteen men on a dead man's chest And I've been drinking

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

Gun Street Girl Tom Waits

Falling James in the Tahoe mud Stick around to tell us all the tale Well he fell in love with a Gun Street girl And now he's dancing in the Birmingham jail Dancing in the Birmingham jail He took

Little Boy Blue Tom Waits

your horn The dish ran away with the spoon Home again home again Saturday morn Never gets up before noon She used to render You legal and tender When you used to Send her your promises boy A

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

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

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

Temptation Tom Waits

Rusted brandy in a diamond glass everything is made from dreams time is made from honey slow and sweet only the fools know what it means temptation, temptation, temptation oh, temptation, temptation, I

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

Crossroads Tom Waits

Now, George was a good straight boy to begin with, but there was bad blood In him; someway he got into the magic bullets and that leads straight to Devil's work, just like marijuana leads to heroin; you

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

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

Jayne's Blue Wish Tom Waits

> The sky holds all our wishes The dish ran away with the spoon Chimney smoke ties 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

Big Black Mariah Tom Waits

Packing down the ladder with the hammer 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

Dead And Lovely Tom Waits

She was a middle class girl She was in over her head She thought she would stand up in the deep end He had a bullet proof smile He had money to burn She thought she had the moon in her pocket But now she's

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

Altar Boy Tom Waits

> He's an ol' altar boy Lying out there in the street He's an ol' alter boy Bound up in leather and chains That's why I'm feeling so blue I'm an old altar boy What about you?

What's He Building? Tom Waits

He never Waves when he goes by He's hiding something from The rest of us... He's all To himself... I think I know Why...

Burma-Shave Tom Waits

Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue Scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town Took the one eyed Jacks across the railroad tracks And the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through Hes

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

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

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.

Barber Shop Tom Waits

mornin mr. furgeson what's the good word witcha been stayin outa trouble like a good boy should i see you're still cuttin hair well i'm still cuttin classes i just couldn't hep myself i got a couple of

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.

All The Time Tom Waits

> You're the tree That you can't eat the fruit from I heard horse come to ride me away I want shade And a good place to shoot from If I's a clock I'd be the end of the day You know you're not the boss

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

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

Back In The Crowd Tom Waits

If you don't want these arms to hold you If you don't want these lips to kiss you If you found someone new Put me back in the crowd Put the sun behind the clouds Put me back in the crowd There's a battle

On The Other Side Of The World Tom Waits

There's a blue eyed girl with a red bow tie and a string of pearls with one good eye in a rainy town the chimney smoke will curl no one likes clowns on the other side of the world and the children know

I Wake Up Crying Tom Jones

I wake up crying After tossin' and turnin' And a-yearnin' the whole night long Pretty baby since you went away I haven't spent a happy day I wake up crying After sobbin' and sighin' And a-wonderin' just

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

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？

On The Nickel Tom Waits

sticks and stones will break my bones, but i always will be true, and when your mama is dead and gone, i'll sing this lullabye just for you, and what becomes of all the little boys, who never comb their

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

Flash Pan Hunter Tom Waits

The flash pan hunter sways with the wind His rifle is the sound of the morning Each sulfurous bullet way have it's own wit Each cartridge comes with a warning Beware of elaborate telescopic meats They

Flash Pan Hunter (Intro) Tom Waits

The flash pan hunter sways with the wind His rifle is the sound of the morning Each sulfurous bullet way have it's own wit Each cartridge comes with a warning Beware of elaborate telescopic meats They

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.

Lucky Day Tom Waits

The prettiest girl In all the world Is in a little Spanish town But I left her for a Bonnie lass And I told her I'd see her around But that Bonnie lass And her heart of glass Would not hold a candle To

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

Hoist That Rag Tom Waits

Well I learned the trade from Piggy Knowles and Sing Sing Tommy Shay, boys God used me as a hammer, boys To beat his weary drum today Hoist that rag! Hoist that rag! Hoist that rag!

Foreign Affair Tom Waits

when travelling abroad in the continental style it's my belief one must attempt to be discreet and subsequently bear in mind your transient position allows you a perspective that's unique though you'll

Swordfishtrombone Tom Waits

Well he came home from the war with a party in his head and modified Brougham DeVille and a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings and a mad dog that wouldn't sit still he went and took

Frank`s Wild Years Tom Waits

Well he came home from the war with a party in his head and modified Brougham DeVille and a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings and a mad dog that wouldn't sit still he went and took

01' '55 Tom Waits

Now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks, Stars beginning to fade, and I lead the parade Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer, Oh, Lord, let me tell you

Ol' '55 Tom Waits

Now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks, Stars beginning to fade, and I lead the parade Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer, Oh, Lord, let me tell you

Ol' 55 Tom Waits

old '55 As I drove away slowly feeling so holy God knows I was feeling alive Now the sun's coming up I'm riding with Lady Luck freeway cars and trucks Stars beginning to fade and I lead the parade Just a

Poor Little Lamb Tom Waits

Poor little lamb now his fleece is all cold Wakes up in the morning alone Poor little lamb knows what's coming Life is an empty cup Poor little lamb watch your shoulder Coyote's waiting out there Nobody

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