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Tom Waits: Vocal
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Victor Feldman: Marimba, conga, bass drum, dabuki drum
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Larry Taylor: Electric bass
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Greg Cohen: Acoustic bass
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Well he came home from the war
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with a party in his head
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and modified Brougham DeVille
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and a pair of legs that opened up
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like butterfly wings
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and a mad dog that wouldn't
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sit still
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he went and took up with a Salvation Ar
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Band girl
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who played dirty water
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on a swordfishtrombone
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he went to sleep at the bottom of
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Tenkiller lake
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and he said "gee, but it's
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great to be home."
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Well he came home from the war
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with a party in his head
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and an idea for a fireworks display
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and he knew that he'd be ready with
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a stainless steel machete
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and a half a pint of Ballentine's
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each day
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and he holed up in room above a hardware store
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cryin' nothing there but Hollywood tears
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and he put a spell on some
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poor little Crutchfield girl
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and stayed like that for 27 years
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Well he packed up all his
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expectations he lit out for California
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with a flyswatter banjo on his knee
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with a lucky tiger in his angel hair
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and benzedrine for getting there
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they found him in a eucalyptus tree
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lieutenant got him a canary bird
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and shaked her head with every word
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and Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song
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and he got 20 years for lovin' her
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from some Oklahoma governor
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said everything this Doughboy
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does is wrong
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Now some say he's doing
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the obituary mambo
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and some say he's hanging on the wall
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perhaps this yarn's the only thing
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that holds this man together
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some say he was never here at all
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Some say they saw him down in
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Birmingham, sleeping in a
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boxcar going by
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and if you think that you can tell a bigger tale
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I swear to God you'd have to tell a lie
Tom Waits - "Hell Broke Luce"
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