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Jitterburg Boys
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Tom Waits
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Well, I'm a jitterbug boy, by the shoe-shine
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Resting on my laurels and my hardys too
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Life of Riley on a swing shift, gears follow my drift
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Once upon a time I was in show-biz too
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I seen the Brooklyn Dodgers playing at Ebbets Field
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Seen the Kentucky Derby too
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It's fast women, slow horses, unreliable sources,
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And I'm holding up the lamp-post if you want to know
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I've seen the Wabash Cannonball, buddy, I've done it all
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'Cause I slept with the lions and Marilyn Monroe,
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Had breakfast in the eye of a hurricane
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Fought Rocky Marciano, played Minnesota Fats,
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Burned hundred-dollar bills, I've eaten Mulligan stew
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Got drunk with Louis Armstrong, what's that old song?
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I taught Mickey Mantle everything that he knows
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So you ask me what I'm doing here holding up the lamp-post,
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Flipping this quarter, trying to make up my mind
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And if it's heads I go to Tennessee, and tails I buy a drink,
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If it lands on the edge I keep talking to you
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(scat)
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