Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone

swordfishtrombone performed by tom waits Well, he came home from the war With a party in his head And modified Brougham DeVille And a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings And a mad dog that wouldn&sit still He went and took up with a Salvation Army band girl Who played dirty water on a swordfishtrombone He went to sleep at the bottom of Tenkiller lake And he said "gee, but it&great to be home" Well, he came home from the war with a party in his head And an idea for a fireworks display And he knew that he&be ready with a stainless steel machete And a half a pint of Ballentine&each day And he holed up in room above a hardware store Cryin¬hing there but Hollywood tears He put a spell on some poor little Crutchfield girl And stayed like that for twenty-seven years He packed up all his expectations, he lit out for California With a flyswatter banjo on his knee With a lucky tiger in his angel hair and Benzedrine for getting there They found him in a eucalyptus tree Lieutenant got him a canary bird and skanked her head with every word Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song He got twenty years for lovin&her from some Oklahoma governor Said "everything this Doughboy does is wrong" Now some say he&doing the obituary mambo Now some say that he&hanging on the wall Perhaps this yarn&the only thing that holds this man together Some say he was never here at all And some say they saw him down in Birmingham Sleeping in a boxcar going by And if you think that you can tell a bigger...