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Album: Swordfishtrombones (1983)
Artists: Waits Tom

  1. (Credits)
  2. 16 Shells From A 30.6
  3. Down, Down, Down
  4. Frank's Wild Years (For Frankie Z.)
  5. Gin Soaked Boy
  6. In The Neighborhood
  7. Johnsburg, Illinois
  8. Shore Leave
  9. Soldier's Things
  10. Swordfishtrombone
  11. Town With No Cheer
  12. Trouble's Braids
  13. Underground


Waits Tom
Swordfishtrombones
16 Shells From A 30.6
Tom Waits: Vocal
Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges: Drums
Larry Taylor: Acoustic bass
Fred Tackett: Electric guitar
Victor Feldman: Brake drum, bell plate, snare
Joe Romano: Trombone

I plugged 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six
and a Black Crow snuck through
a hole in the sky
so I spent all my buttons on an
old pack mule
and I made me a ladder from
a pawn shop marimba
and I leaned it up against
a dandelion tree

And I filled me a sachel
full of old pig corn
and I beat me a billy
from an old French horn
and I kicked that mule
to the top of the tree
and I blew me a hole
'bout the size of a kickdrum
and I cut me a switch
from a long branch elbow

Chorus
I'm gonna whittle you into kindlin'
Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six
whittle you into kindlin'
Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six

Well I slept in the holler
of a dry creek bed
and I tore out the buckets
from a red Corvette, tore out the buckets from a red Corvette
Lionel and Dave and the Butcher made three
you got to meet me by the knuckles of the skinnybone tree
with the strings of a Washburn
stretched like a clothes line
you know me and that mule scrambled right through the hole

Repeat Chorus

Now I hold him prisoner
in a Washburn jail
that stapped on the back
of my old kick mule
strapped it on the back of my old kick mule
I bang on the strings just
to drive him crazy
I strum it loud just to rattle his cage
strum it loud just to rattle his cage

Repeat Chorus
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