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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
Shore Leave
Tom Waits: Chair, vocal
Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges: Drums
Randy Aldcroft: Trombone
Victor Feldman: Marimba, bass marimba & shaker, bass drum with rice
Larry Taylor: Acoustic bass
Fred Tackett: Banjo, guitar
Francis Thumm: Metal aunglongs

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
and a shore leave wristwatch underneath
my sleeve
in a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels
I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank
and I'd left all my papers on the Ticonderoga
and was in a bad need of a shave
and so I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein
and shot billards with a midget
until the rain stopped
and I bought a long sleeved shirt
with horses on the front
and some gum and a lighter and a knife
and a new deck of cards (with girls on the back)
and I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife

and I said Baby, I'm so far away from home
and I miss my Baby so
I can't make it by myself
I love you so

Well I was pacing myself
trying to make it all last
squeezing all the life
out of a lousy two day pass
and I had a cold one at the Dragon
with some Filipino floor show
and talked baseball with a lieutenant
over a Singapore sling
and I wondered how the same moon outside
over this Chinatown fair
could look down on Illinois
an
and you know I love you Baby

and I'm so far away from home
and I miss my Baby so
I can't make it by myself
I love you so

Shore Leave...
Shore Leave...
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