little black girl in a red dress on a hot night with a broken shoe little black girl you shoulda never left home theres probly someone thats still waitin up for...

I plugged 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six and a Black Crow snuck through a hole in the sky so I spent all my buttons on an old pack mule and I made me a ladde...

(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan) I lost everything I had in the '29 flood The barn was buried 'neath a mile of mud Now I've got nothing but the whistle and the...

Well it's Ninth and Hennepin All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky Like a tarp thrown all over this...

I lit a wooden match; I let it all burn down I've broken every rule; I've wrecked it all down There are no words in the wind, the trees are all bare Life's mean...

The Ice Man's mule is parked Outside the bar Where a man with missing fingers Plays a strange guitar And the German dwarf Dances with the buthcer's son And a li...

Ain't goin' down Ain't goin' down Momma to the well, momma to the well, momma to the well, Momma to the well, no more Ain't goin' down Ain't goin' down Momma to...

It's dreamy weather we're on You waved your crooked wand Along an icy pond with a frozen moon A murder of silhouette crows I saw And the tears on my face And th...

Well the time will come When the wind will shout All stripped down All stripped down And all the sinners know What I'm talking about All stripped down All strip...

You're the tree That you can't eat the fruit from I heard horse come to ride me away I want shade And a good place to shoot from If I's a clock I'd be the end o...

My head is spinning round, my heart is in my shoes, yeah I went and set the Thames on fire, oh, now I must come back down She's laughing in her sleeve boys, I c...

Hell above and heaven below All the trees are gone The rain has a such a lovely sound To those who're six feet underground The leaves will bury every year And n...

In the evening he stumbles home with his tie undone, As the moon sweeps 7th avenue, as usual You lie awake at night You remember when Now that Annie's back in ...

Bougainvillea's bloom and wind Be careful mind the strangle vines The rose is climbing over blind 'Cause the sun is on the other side The bees will find their h...

My head is spinning round My heart is in my shoes I went and set the Thames on fire No I must come back down She's laughing in her sleeve at me I can feel it in...

Well I stood on the corner Until my feet got wet I stood by the faucet Till the sink filled up I stood by the window Until the moon came up My baby's bought a t...

If you don't want these arms to hold you If you don't want these lips to kiss you If you found someone new Put me back in the crowd Put the sun behind the cloud...

You're the head on the spear You're the nail on the cross You're the fly in my beer You're the key that got lost You're the letter from Jesus on the bathroom wa...

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart And I dont have a drinking problem, cept when I cant get a drink And I...

good mornin mr snip snip snip witchur haircut jus as short as mine bay rum lucky tiger butch wax cracker jacks shoe shine jaw breaker magazine racks hangin roun...

A cloud lets go of the moon Her ribbons are all out of tune She is skating on the ice In a glass in the hands of a man That she kissed on a train And the childr...

(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan) The sky's as deep as it can be Bend down the branches Close your eyes and you will see Bend down the branches You're like a w...

all my friends are married every Tom and Dick and Harry you must be strong to go it alone here's to the bachelors and the bowery bums and those who feel that th...

Cuttin' through the cane break Rattling the sill Thunder that the rain makes When the shadow tops the hill Big light on the back street Hill to ever more, Packi...

I got the style but not the grace I got the clothes but not the face I got the bread but not the butter I got the winda but not the shutter But I'm big in Japa...

Well you see I happened to be back on the east coast A few years back tryin to make me a buck Like everybody else, well you know Times get hard and well I got d...

She lives in a house That's way back off the road There's a man with a lantern And he carries her soul A coal stove and a bed A skillet and a hound She drove a ...

(Tom Waits/K Brennan) Take an eye for an eye Take a tooth for a tooth Just like they say in the Bible Never leave a trace or forget a face Of any man at the ta...

Mary's on the black top There's a husband in the dog house In the middle of a shakedown She got quiet as a church mouose She found Raleigh's on the dashboard Su...

Blue skies over my head Give me another reason to get out of bed And blue skies shine on my face Give me another woman to take her place Ain?t got no money, cu...

(Alexander "Skip" Spence) Books of Moses, bringing stone news Wet in the water, weeping in the sun Books of Moses, got some splinters didn't you Books of Moses...

My daddy told me, lookin back, The best friend you'll have is a railroad track So when I was 13 said, I'm rollin' my own And I'm leavin' Missouri and I'm never ...

licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks and the scar on its belly pu...

Over here the ladies all waltz with perfume But there's never a rose And over there the roses are frightened to bloom So they never can grow And over here they ...

(Tom Waits) I stood on the roof, stood toward dark To get a better look at the Fledderjons' lawn Big sharp pistols, ammo too Nothing but books about World War ...

I don't mind working, 'cause I used to be jerking off most of my time in bars, I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerk And a manic me...

Uncle Vernon Uncle Vernon Independent as a Hog on ice He's a big shot down there At the slaughterhouse He plays accordion For Mr Weiss Uncle Bittmore and Uncle ...

Did you hear the news about Edward? On the back of his head he had another face Was it a woman's face or a young girl? They said to remove it would kill him So ...

The seeds are planted here But they won't grow We won't have to say goodbye If we all go Maybe things will be better in Chicago To leave all we've ever known Fo...

Once upon a time there was a poor child, with no father and no mother And everything was dead And no one was left in the whole world Everything was dead And th...

Don't go to church on Sunday Don't get on my knees to pray Don't memorize the books of the Bible I got my own special way Bit I know Jesus loves me Maybe just a...

Hey charlie i'm pregnant And living on the 9th street Right above a dirty bookstore Off euclid avenue And i stopped takin dope And i quit drinkin whiskey And my...

We put up our tent on a dark Green knoll, outside of town by The train tracks and a seagull dump Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel And her 'Marvellous Pigs ...

Well my baby's so fine Even her car looks good From behind Well my baby's so fine Even her car looks good From behind But the train that took My baby It went ...

Sane, sane, they're all insane The fireman's blind, the conductor's lame A Cincinatti jacket and a sack luck dame Hanging out the window with a bottle full of r...

Crest fallen sidekick in an old cafe never slept with a dream before he had to go away there's a bell in the tower Uncle Ray bought a round don't worry about th...

Well I woke up this morning With the cold water With the cold water With the cold water Woke up this morning With the cold water With the cold water With the co...

Well the moon is broken And the sky is cracked Come on up to the house The only things that you can see Is all that you lack Come on up to the house All your c...

Depot, depot, what am I doing here? Depot, depot, what am I doing here? I ain't coming, I ain't going My confusion is showing Outside the midnight wind is blowi...

Now, George was a good straight boy to begin with, but there was bad blood In him; someway he got into the magic bullets and that leads straight to Devil's work...

(Joey Ramone) [Originally by The Ramones] Danny says we gotta go Gotta go to Idaho But we can't go surfin' 'Cause it's 20 below Sound check's at 5:02 Record ...

I might catch some perchyeah Ahkeep it rollin' here Take you on a lurch On a little date to church Take you and her On a, a little date to church La,la-la-la-...

She was a middle class girl She was in over her head She thought she would Stand up in the deep end He had a bullet proof smile He had money to burn She though...

Depot, depot, what am I doing here? Depot, depot, what am I doing here? I ain't coming, I ain't going My confusion is showing Outside the midnight wind is blowi...

Broken glass, rusty nails where the wild violets grow Say goodbye to the railroad, the mad dogs of summer And everything that I know What some men will do here...

Diamonds on my windshield Tears from heaven Pulling into town on the Interstate Pulling a steel train in the rain The wind bites my cheek through the wing Fast ...

(Tom Waits/K Brennan) What does it matter, a dream of love Or a dream of lies We're all gonna be in the same place When we die Your spirit don't leave knowing ...

(Waits/Brennan/Linkous) Well, she's as mean as a needle Don't get close to the heater I could be a shopkeeper We'll call an extra She's about six foot four No...

Thanks, uh You know uh, this is weird uh Most of us have dogs, allright? (applause) I don't know if it's a local thing where I live, or if it's everywhere, and ...

(Tom Waits) There's a place I know where the train goes slow Where the sinner can be washed in the blood of the lam There's a river by the trestle down by sinn...

He went down down down and the devil called him by name he went down down down hangin' onto the back of a train he went down down down this boy went solid down ...

red pants and the sugarman in, the temple street gloom, drinkin' chivas regal in a four dollar room, just another dead soldier in a powder blue night, sugarman ...

Tight-slacked clad girls on the graveyard shift 'Neath the cement stroll Catch the midnight drift Cigar chewing charlie In that newspaper nest grifting hot hors...

Rudy's on the midway And Jacob's in the hole THe monkey's on the ladder The devil shovels coal With crows as big as airplanes The lion has three heads And someo...

(In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson) nighthawks at the diner of Emma's 49er, there's a rendezvous of strangers around the coffee urn tonight all the gypsy hack...

late night and early morning low clouds with a chance of fog chance of showers into the afternoon with variable high cloudiness and gusty winds, gusty winds at ...

Why be sweet, why be careful, why be kind? A man has only one thing on his mind Why ask politely, why go lightly, why say please? They only want to get you on y...

Everything you can think of is true Before the ocean was blue We were lost in a flood Run red with your blood Nigerian skeleton crew Everything you can think o...

Well Zenora Bariella And Coriander Pyle They had sixteen children In the usual style They had a curio museum And they had no guile All they ever wanted Was a sh...

I'm goin' away (x4) The cradle wants a baby The kitchen wants a pan The heart wants a certain kind of lover if it can The ocean wants a sailor The gun wants a...

(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan) There's a crooked street in Houston town, It's a well born path I've traveled down Now there's ruin in my name, I wish I never...

Well I hung on to Mary's stump I danced with a soldier's glee With a rum soaked crook And a big fat laugh I spent my last dollar on thee I saw Bill Bones, gave ...

She drove a big ol' Lincoln with suicide doors And a sewing machine in the back And a light bulb that looked like an alligator egg Was mounted up front on the h...

They bought a round for the sailor And they heard his tale Of a world that was so far away And a song that we'd never heard A song of a little bird That fell in...

(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan) Peoria Johnson told Dirty Ol' Joe I can break out of any old jail, you know The bars are iron, the walls are stone All I need ...

The flash pan hunter sways with the wind His rifle is the sound of the morning Each sulfurous bullet way have it's own wit Each cartridge comes with a warning B...

Someday the silver moon and I Will go to dreamland I will close my eyes And wake up there in dreamland But tell me who will put flowers On a flower's grave? Who...

when travelling abroad in the continental style it's my belief one must attempt to be discreet and subsequently bear in mind your transient position allows you ...

That woman will take you, that woman will break you That woman will make you something you've never seen That woman's got claws, that woman's got laws Now look ...

Dream away the tears in your eyes Dream away your sorrows Dream away all your goodbyes Dream away tomorrow I promise when the sun comes up I promise I'll be tru...

Frank settled down in the Valley, And he hung his wild years on a Nail that he drove through his Wife's forehead He sold used office furniture out There on San...

Friday left me fumblin' with the blues And it's hard to win when you always lose Because the nightspots spend your spirit Beat your head against the wall Two de...

Cold was the night, hard was the ground They found her in a small grove of trees Lonesome was the place where Georgia was found She's too young to be out On the...

Molly be damned smote Jimmy the Harp With a horrid little pistol and a lariat She's goin to the bottom And she's goin down the drain Said she wasn't big enough ...

I don't want to feel all cooped up I feel like I'm on a chain I got my ride all souped up We're never coming back again Time it don't mean nothing Money means e...

I got a belly full of you and that Leavenworth stuff now I'm gonna get out And I'm gonna get tough you been lying to me How could you crawl so low with some gin...

I'd sell your heart to the junk-man baby for a buck, for a buck! If you're looking for someone To pull you out of that ditch You're out of luck, you're out of l...

Well It's a quarter a two And looking at you And going down, going down slow Well It's a quarter a two And looking at you And going down, going down slow TV we...

(Tom Waits/K Brennan) Well I'm goin' out west Where the wind blows tall 'Cause Tony Franciosa Used to date my ma They got some money out there They're giving i...

[Chorus:] Irene, goodnight Irene, goodnight Goodnight, Irene Goodnight, Irene I'll see you in my dreams Last Saturday night I got married Me and my wife settl...

This is a song about Utah Phillips, the golden voice of the great South-West And it's about a, it's about a, like a cook on a wagon train, you know And they use...

Come on people Got to get on board Train is leavin' And there's room for one more God, don't listen to the devil He got ways to move you This train don't carry ...

Grapefruit moon, one star shining, shining down on me Heard that tune, and now I'm pining, honey, can't you see? 'Cause every time I hear that melody, well, som...

Lay your head where my heart used to be Hold the earth above me Lay down in the green grass Remember when you loved me Come closer don't be shy Stand beneath a...

Falling James in the Tahoe mud Stick around to tell us all the tale He fell in love with a Gun Street Girl and Now he's dancing in the Birmingham jail Dancing i...

Hush a wild violet, hush a band of gold Hush you?re in a story I heard somebody told Tear the promise from my heart, tear my heart today You have found another,...

Hang on st christopher through the smoke and the oil Buckle down the rumble seat let the radiator boil got an overhead downshift and a two dollar grill got an 8...

Liar liar with your pants on fire, white spades hangin on the telephone Wire, gamblers reevaluate along the dotted line, youll never recognize Yourself on heart...

Well, we dig dig dig Well, we dig in our mine the whole day through Dig dig dig, that is what we like to do And it ain't no trick to get rich quick If you dig d...

I had a good home but I left, I had a good home but I left, right, left, That big fucking bomb made me deaf, deaf, A Humvee mechanic with his Kevlar on wrong, G...