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Artist/Band: Tom Waits
Lyrics for Song: Reeperbahn
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Tom Waits



Round the curve of the Parrot Bar

A broken-down old movie star

Hustling and Easterner

Bringing out the beast in her

A high dive in a swimming pool

Filled with needles and with fools

The memories are short but the tales are long

When you're in the Reeperbahn



They called her Rosie when she was a girl

For her bright red cheeks and her strawberry curls

When she would laugh the river would run

Said she'd become a comedian

Oh what a pity, oh what a shame

When she said come calling, nobody came

Now her bright red cheeks are painted on

And she's laughing her head off in the Reeperbahn



Now little Hans was always strange

Wearing women's 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 on every page

His father proudly calls his name

Down there in the Reeperbahn



Now if you've lost your inheritance

And all you've left is common sense

And you're not too picky about the crowd you keep

Or the mattress where you sleep

Behind every window, behind every door

The apple is gone but there's always the core

The seeds will sprout up right through the floor

Down there in the Reeperbahn



Down there in the Reeperbahn


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