Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
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Release date: 30 March 2007
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- Underground
- Shore Leave
- Dave The Butcher (Instrumental)
- Johnsburg, Illinois
- 16 Shells From A 30.6
- Town With No Cheer
- In The Neighbourhood
- Just Another Sucker On The Vine (Instrumental)
- Frank's Wild Years
- Swordfishtrombone
- Down, Down, Down
- Soldier's Things
- Gin Soaked Boy
- Trouble's Braids
- Rainbirds (Instrumental)
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Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones: Wikipedia Album Entry
Swordfishtrombones is an album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1983. It was the first album that Waits produced himself and is marked as such by a sense of artistic freedom that would increasingly characterize his later work.
Stylistically different from his previous LPs, Swordfishtrombones moves away from the piano and string orchestra arrangements of the late seventies replacing them instead with unusual instrumentation and a somewhat more abstract songwriting approach.
Swordfishtrombones peaked at #164 on Billboard's Pop Albums and Billboard 200 albums chart.
In 1989, Spin Magazine named Swordfishtrombones the second greatest album of all time.
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Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones Lyrics
Tom Waits - Underground Lyrics
Rattle Big Black Bones
in the Danger zone
there's a rumblin' groan
down below
Tom Waits - Just Another Sucker on The Vine Lyrics
[instrumental]
Tom Waits - 16 Shells from a Thirty - Ought - Six Lyrics
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Tom Waits - Trouble's Braids Lyrics
Well I pulled on trouble's braids
and I hid in the briars
out by the quick mud
stayin' away from the main roads
Tom Waits - Gin Soaked Boy Lyrics
I got a belly full of you
and that Leavenworth stuff
now I'm gonna get out
And I'm gonna get tough
Tom Waits - Soldier's Things Lyrics
Davenports and kettle drums
and swallow tail coats
table cloths and patent leather shoes
bathing suits and bowling balls
Tom Waits - Down, Down, Down Lyrics
He went down down down
and the devil called him by name
he went down down down
hangin' onto the back of a train
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years Lyrics
Well Frank settled down in the Valley
and hung his wild years
on a nail that he drove through
his wife's forehead
Tom Waits - In The Neighborhood Lyrics
Well the eggs chase the bacon
round the fryin' pan
and the whinin' dog pidgeons
by the steeple bell rope
Tom Waits - Town With No Cheer Lyrics
Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces
there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier
there'll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo
from Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander
Tom Waits - Johnsburg, Illinois Lyrics
She's my only true love
she's all that I think of
look here in my wallet
that's her
Tom Waits - Shore Leave Lyrics
Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart
I rolled down the national stroll
and with a big fat paycheck
strapped to my hip sack
