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Artist/Band: Tom Waits
Lyrics for Song: Whislin Past The Graveyard
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Tom Waits



Well I come in on a night train

With an arm full of box cars

On the wings of a magpie

Cross a hooligan night

And I busted up a chifforobe

Way out by the cocomo

Cooked up a mess a mulligan

And got into a fight



Chorus:

Whistlin past the graveyard

Steppin on a crack

I'm a mean motherhubbard

Papa one eyed jack



You propably seen me sleepin

Out by the railroad tracks

Go on and ask the prince of darkness

What about all thet smoke

Come from the stack

Sometimes I kill myself a jacket

Suck out all the blood

Steal myself a stationwagon

Drivin through the mud



Chorus



I know you seen my headlights

And the honkin of my horn

I'm callin out my bloodhounds

Chase the devil through the corn

Last night I chugged the mississippi

Now that suckers dry as a bone

Born in a taxi cab

I'm never comin home



Chorus



My eyes have seen the glory

Of the draining of the ditch

I only come to baton rouge

To find myself a witch

I'm-ona snatch me up a

Couple of em every time it rains

You see a locomotive

Probably thinkin it's a train



Chorus



What you think is the sunshine

Is just a twinkle in my eye

That ring around my fingers

Just the 4th of july

When I get a little bit lonesome

And a tear falls from my cheek

Theres gonna be an ocean in

The middle of the week



Chorus



I rode into town on a night train

With an arm full of box cars

On the wings of a magpie

Cross a hooligan night

I'm-ona tear me off a rainbow

And wear it for a tie

I never told the truth

So I can never tell a lie



Chorus


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