Pony

Tom Waits · Mule Variations [1999]

I've seen it all boys

I've been all over

Been everywhere in the

whole wide world

I rode the high line

with old blind Darby

I danced real slow

with Ida Jane

I was full of wonder

when I left Murfreesboro

Now I am full of hollow

on Maxwell street

And I hope my Pony

I hope my Pony

I hope my Pony

knows the way back home



I walked from Natchez

to Hushpukena

I built a fire by the side

of the road

I worked for nothin in a

Belzoni saw mill. I caught a

blind out on the B and O

Talullah's friendly Belzoni ain't so

A 44'll get you 99



And I hope my Pony

I hope my Pony

I hope my Pony

Knows the way back home



I run my race with burnt face Jake

gave him a Manzanita cross

I lived on nothin

but dreams and train smoke

Somehow my watch and chain

got lost.

I wish I was home in Evelyn's Kitchen

with old Gyp curled around my feet

(Chorus)