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Artist/Band: Tom Waits
Lyrics for Song: Swordfishtrombones
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - 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 up with a Salvation Army

Band girl

who played dirty water

on a swordfishtrombone

he went to sleep at the bottom of

Tenkiller lake

and he said "gee, but it's

great to be home."



Well he came home from the war

with a party in his head

and an idea for a fireworks display

and he knew that he'd be ready with

a stainless steel machete

and a half a pint of Ballentine's

each day

and he holed up in room above a hardware store

cryin' nothing there but Hollywood tears

and he put a spell on some

poor little Crutchfield girl

and stayed like that for 27 years



Well he packed up all his

expectations he lit out for California

with a flyswatter banjo on his knee

with a lucky tiger in his angel hair

and benzedrine for getting there

they found him in a eucalyptus tree

lieutenant got him a canary bird

and shaked her head with every word

and Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song

and he got 20 years for lovin' her

from some Oklahoma governor

said everything this Doughboy

does is wrong



Now some say he's doing

the obituary mambo

and some say he's hanging on the wall

perhaps this yarn's the only thing

that holds this man together

some say he was never here at all



Some say they saw him down in

Birmingham, sleeping in a

boxcar going by

and if you think that you can tell a bigger tale

I swear to God you'd have to tell a lie...


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