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Artist/Band: Tom Waits
Lyrics for Song: Medley: Jack & Neal/california, Here I Come
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Tom Waits



California, Here I Come

written by Joseph Meyer, Al Jolson and Buddy G. De Sylva

jack was sittin poker faced with bullets backed with bitches

neal hunched at the wheel puttin everyone in stiches

braggin bout this nurse he screwed while drivin through nebraska

and when she came she honked the horn and neal just barely missed a

truck and then he asked her if she'd like to come like that to californy

see a red head in a uniform will always get you horny

with her hairnet and those white shoes and a name tag and a hat

she drove like andy granatelli and knew how to fix a flat

and jack was almost at the bottom of his md 2020 neal was yellin

out the window tryin to buy some bennies from a lincoln

full of mexicans whose left rear tire blowed and the sonsobitches

prit near almost ran off the road



well the nurse had spilled the manoshevitz all up and down her dress

then she lit the map on fire neal just had to guess

should we try and find a bootleg route or a fillin station open

the nurse was dumpin out her purse lookin for an envelope and

jack was out of cigarettes we crossed the yellow line

the gas pumps looked like tombstones from here

felt lonelier than a parking lot when the last car pulls away

and the moonlight dressed the double breasted foothills

in the mirror weaving outa negligee and a black brassiere

the mercury was runnin hot and almost out of gas

just then florence nightingale dropped her drawers and

stuck her fat ass half way out of the window with a

wilson pickett tune

and shouted get a load of this and gave the finger to the moon



countin one eyed jacks and whistling dixie in the car

neal was doin least a hundred when we saw a fallin star

florence wished that neal would hold her stead of chewin

his cigar jack was noddin out and dreamin he was in a bar

with charlie parker on the bandstand not a worry in the world

and a glass of beer in one hand and his arm around a girl

and neal was singin to the nurse

underneath a harlem moon

and somehow you could just tell we'd be in california soon


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Tom Waits


Tom Waits
"Other Songs - Tom Waits"


1. ...But There's Never A Rose
2. (opening Intro)
3. 16 Shells From A 30.06
4. Alice
5. Back In The Good Old World
6. Barcarolle
7. Broken Bicycles
8. Candy Apple Red
9. Chained Together For Life
10. Diamonds & Gold
11. Eggs & Sausage
12. Everything You Can Think
13. Filipino Box Spring Hog
14. Fish And Bird
15. Flower's Grave
16. Frank's Theme
17. Hang Me In The Bottle
18. I Beg Your Pardon
19. I'm Still Here
20. Innocent When You Dream
21. Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream
22. Jitterbug Boy
23. Kentucky Anvenue
24. Kommienezuepadt
25. Little Boy Blue
26. Los Angeles Mood
27. Lost In The Harbour
28. Medley: Jack & Neal/california, Here I Come
29. Midnight Lullabye
30. Mr. Henry
31. Nighthawk Postcards
32. No One Knows I'm Gone
33. Old Boyfriends
34. On The Other Side Of The World
35. Once Upon A Town/empty Pockets
36. Pasties And A G-String
37. Picking Up After You
38. Poor Edward
39. Reeperbahn
40. Spare Parts I
41. Starving in the Belly of a Whale
42. Straight To The Top (Rhumba)
43. Swordfishtrombones
44. Table Top Joe
45. Take It With Me
46. Take Me Home
47. The Wages Of Love
48. This One's From The Heart
49. Watch Her Disappear
50. We're All Mad Here
51. Whislin Past The Graveyard
52. You Can't Unring A Bell
53. Two Sisters
54. Young At Heart