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I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)
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Tom Waits
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I don't mind working, 'cause I used to be jerking off most of my time in bars,
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I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerk
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And a manic mechanic on cars.
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It's nice work if you can get it, now who the hell said it?
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I got money to spend on my gal,
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But the work never stops, and I'll be busting my chops
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Working for Joe and Sal.
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And I can't wait to get off work and see my baby,
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She said she'd leave the porch light on for me.
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I'm disheveled and I'm disdainful and I'm distracted and it's painful,
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But this job sweeping up here is gainfully employing me tonight.
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Well "Tom, do this" and "Tom, do that", and "Tom, don't do that",
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Count the cash, clean the oven, dump the trash,
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Oh your loving is a rare and a copacetic gift,
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And I'm a moonlight watch manic, it's hard to be romantic
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Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine,
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Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine...
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I can't wait to get off work and see my baby
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She'll be waiting up with a magazine for me.
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Clean the bathrooms and clean 'em good, oh your loving I wish you would
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Come down here and sweep a-me off my feet, this broom'll have to be my baby,
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If I hurry, I just might get off before the dawn's early light.
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