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Composer: Tom Waits

Tom Waits - Shore Leave lyrics



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...
Songs list of album: Swordfishtrombones (1983)
         Title Rating
01   Underground lyrics   -
02   Shore Leave lyrics   -
03    Dave the Butcher [instrumental] lyrics Add lyrics   -
04    Johnsburg, Illinois lyrics Add lyrics   -
05    16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six lyrics Add lyrics   -
06   Town With No Cheer lyrics   -
07    In the Neighborhood lyrics Add lyrics   -
08    Just Another Sucker on the Vine [instrumental] lyrics Add lyrics   -
09   Frank's Wild Years lyrics   -
10   Swordfishtrombone lyrics   -
11   Down, Down, Down lyrics   -
12   Soldier's Things lyrics   -
13   Gin Soaked Boy lyrics   -
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15    Rainbirds [instrumental] lyrics Add lyrics   -
 

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