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Once Upon a Town
Tom Waits
I wish I had a dollar for
Each time I took a chance
___ ___ ___two-bit romeos
Who __ ___ __ romance
Somehow I was thinking of
Last time I fell down
Knowing that you fall in love
Once upon a town
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Lyrics by Tom Waits
...But There's Never A Rose
'Til the Money Runs Out
(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
\'til The Money Runs Out
$29.00
16 Shells From A 30.06
16 Shells From A 306
16 Shells from a Thirty - Ought - Six
16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six
16 Shells from a Thrity-Ought Six
29 00
9th & Hennepin
9th & Hennepin
9th and Hennepin
Turntable
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
A Little Rain
A Sight For Sore Eyes
A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue
A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun
After You Die
Ain\'t 2 Proud 2 Beg
Ain\'t 2 Proud 2 Beg (Left Eye\'s 3 Minutes & Coun...
Alice
All I Want For Christmas
All Stripped Down
All The World Is Green
Altar Boy
And No One Knows I'm Gone
Annie\'s Back In Town
Another Man's Vine
Anywhere I Lay My Head
Automatic
Baby Baby Baby
Baby Baby Baby (Extended Remix)
Back In The Crowd
Back in the Good Old World
Back In The Good Old World Gypsy
Bad As Me
Bad By Myself
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)
Barber Shop
Barcarolle
Better off without a Wife
Big Black Mariah
Big In Japan
Big Joe & Phantom 309
Big Joe and Phantom 309
Black Market Baby
Black Wings
Blind Love
Blow Wind Blow
Blue Skies
Blue Valentine
Blue Valentines
Books of Moses
Broken Bicycles
Burma Shave
Buzz Fledderjohn
Candy Apple Red
Careless Love
Case of the Fake People
Cemetery Polka
Chained Together For Life
Chicago
Chocolate Jesus
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
Christmas Cards From A Hooker In Minneapolis
Christmas Sucks
Circus
Clap Hands
Cold Cold Ground
Cold Cold Ground (Live)
Cold Water
Come On Down
Come on up to the House
Coney Island Baby
Credits
Creep
Creep (DARP Remix)
Crossroads
Damaged
Danny Says
Das Da Way We Like \'Em
Date To Church
Day After Tomorrow
Dead and Lovely
Dear Lie
Depend On Myself
Depot, Depot
Diamonds & Gold
Diamonds & Gold
Diamonds And Gold
Diamonds On My Windshield
Diamonds On My Windshield (Looking For)
Diamonds On My Windshield Looking For
Diggin\' On You
Dirt In The Ground
Dirty Dirty
Don't Go into That Barn
Don\'t Pull Out On Me Yet
Down The Reeperbahn
Down, Down, Down
Downtown
Downtown Train
Downtown Trains
Drunk on the Moon
Earth Died Screaming
Eggs & Sausage
Eggs & Sausage
Eggs and Sausage
Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michels...
Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michels...
Eggs and Sausage (Intro)
Eggs And Sausage – Invitation To The Blues
Emotional Weather Report
Everything Goes To Hell
Everything You Can Think
Everything You Can Think Of Is True
Eyeball Kid
Face To The Highway
Fall Of Troy
Falling Down
Falling Down
Fanmail
Fannin Street
Filipino Box Spring Hog
First Kiss
Fish & Bird
Fish & Bird
Flash Pan Hunter
Flash Pan Hunter Intro
Flowers Grave
Foreign Affair
Frank's Song
Frank's Theme
Frank's Wild Years
FRANK\'S SONG
Frank\'s Theme
Frank\'s Wild Years
Frank\'s Wild Years For Frankie Z
Fumblin' With The Blues
Fumblin\' With The Blues
Georgia Lee
Get Away (Bonus Track)
Get Behind The Mule
Get it Up
Get Los
Get Lost
Gin Soaked Boy
Girl Talk
Give it to Me While It\'s Hot
God's Away On Busines
God's Away On Business
God's Away On Bussiness
God\'s Away On Business
Goin' Down Slow
Goin' Out West
Goin\' Down Slow
Goin\' Out West
Good Love
Good Old World
Good Old World (Waltz)
Good Old World Waltz
Goodnight Irene
Goodnight Loving Trail
Gospel Train
Gospel Train Orchestra
Gospel Train\/Orchestra
Grapefruit Moon
Green Grass
Gun Street Girl
Had Me A Girl
Hands Up
Hang Down Your Head
Hang Me In The Bottle
Hang On St. Christopher
Hat 2 Da Back
Heartattack and Vine
Heartattack and Vine
Heigh Ho
Heigh Ho! (The Dwarfs' Marching Song)
Hell Broke Luce
Hey Hey Hey Hey
His Story
Hoist That Rag
Hold On
Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You
Hope I Don\'t Fall In Love With You
House Where Nobody Lives
How's It Gonna End
I Beg Your Pardon
I Can't Wait To Get Off Work
I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On M...
I Can\'t Wait To Get Off Work
I Can\'t Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On ...
I Can\'t Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On ...
I Can’t Wait To Get Off To Work
I Can’t Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On...
I Cant Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Mo...
I Don't Wanna Grow Up
I Don\'t Wanna Grow Up
I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You
I Hope That I Don\'t Fall In Love With You
I Miss You So Much
I Need That *
I Never Talk to Strangers
I Want You
I Wish I Was in New Orleans
I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)
I Wish I Was In New Orleans – Small Change
I'll Be Gone
I'll Shoot the Moon
I'll Take New York
I'm Still Here
I'm Your Late Night Evening Prostitute
I\'ll Be Gone
I\'ll Shoot The Moon
I\'ll Take New York
I\'m Good at Being Bad
I\'m Still Here
I\'M YOUR LATE NIGHT EVENING PROSTITUDE
I\'m Your Late Night Evening Prostitute
Ice Cream Man
If I Have To Go
If I Was Your Girlfriend
If They Knew
In Between Love
In the Colosseum
In the Neighborhood
In Your Arms Tonight
Innocent When You Dream
Innocent When You Dream Barroom
Invitation to the Blues
Invitation To The Blues – Eggs And Sausage
Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream
Jack & Neal – California, Here I Come
Jack and Neal
Jersey Girl
Jesus Gonna Be Here
Jitterbug Boy
Jitterburg Boys
Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Johnsburg, Illinois
Just the Right Bullets
Kentuchy Avenue
Kentucky Anvenue
Kentucky Avenue
Kick Your Game
King Kong
Kiss Me
Komme Nie Zu Spät
Kommienezuepadt
Kommienezuspadt
Last Leaf
Let\'s Do it Again
Little Boy Blue
Little Drop Of Poison
Little Trip To Heaven
Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)
Live Circus
Lonely
Long Way Home
Looking For, The Heart Of Saturday Night
Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again
Looks Like I\'m Up Shit Creek Again
Lost In The Harbor
Lost In The Harbour
Lovesick
Lowside Of The Road
Lucinda / Ain't Goin Down
Lucky Day
Lucky Day Overture
Lullaby
Make It Rain
Martha
Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come
Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come
Metropolitan Glide
Midnight Lullaby
Midnight Lullabye
Misery Is The River Of The World
Mockin' Bird
Mockin\' Bird
More Than Rain
Mr. Henry
Mr. Siegal
Murder in the Red Barn
Muriel
My Life
My Secret Enemy
New Coat of Paint
New Year's Eve
New Year\'s Eve
New York Theme
New York Theme (instrumental)
Nighthawk Postcards
Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)
Nighthawk Postcards From Easy Street
No One Knows I'm Gone
No Scrubs (LP Version)
Nobody
November
Oily Night
Ol '55
Ol' 55
Ol\' 55
Old Boyfriends
Old Shoes
Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards)
On a Foggy Night
On the Nickel
On the Other Side of the World
On The Road
Once Upon A Time (Empty Pockets)
Once Upon A Town/Empty Pockets
Open Intro
Over Me
Pasties and a G-string
Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O’Clock Club)
Pasties Gstrin
Picking Up After You
Picture In A Frame
Please Call Me, Baby
Please Wake Me Up
Poncho's Lament
PONCHO\'S LAMENT
Pony
Poor Edward
Potter's Field
Potter\'s Field
Putnam County
Quickie
Rain Dogs
Red Light Special
Red Shoes by the Drugstore
Reeperbahn
Rockin Chair
Rockin' Chair
Romeo Is Bleeding
Rosie
Ruby's Arms
Ruby\'s Arms
San Diego Serenade
Saving All My Love for You
Semi Suite
Shake It
She Stole The Blush
Shiver Me Timbers
Shock Dat Monkey
Shore Leave
Shout
Singapore
Sins of My Father
Sins Of The Father
Sleigh Ride
Small Change
Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)
Small Change\/Hey Big Spender
So It Goes
So Long I'll See Ya
So Long I\'ll See Ya
So So Dumb
Soldier's Things
Soldier\'s Things
Somethin\' You Wanna Know
Somewhere
Somewhere (from West Side Story)
Spare Parts
Spare Parts I
Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
Spare Parts I A Nocturnal Emission
Standin’ On The Corner
Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
Step Right Up
Story
Straight to the Top
Straight To the Top (Rhumba)
Straight To the Top (Vegas)
Strange Weather
Strange Weather (Live)
Such A Scream
Switch
Swordfishtrombone
Swordfishtrombones
T'ain't No Sin
T\'ain\'t No Sin
Table Top Joe
Tabletop Joe
Take It With Me
Take Me Home
Take One Last Look
Take Our Time
Talking At The Same Time
Tango 'Til They're Sore
Tango \'til They\'re Sore
Tango Til They’re Sore
Tango Till They're Sore
Tango Till They\'re Sore
Telephone Call From Istanbul
Tell Me
Temptation
That Feel
That's the Way
That\'s The Way
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
The Black Rider
The Briar and the Rose
The Ghosts Of Saturday – The Heart Of Saturday N...
The Ghosts of Saturday Night
The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (after Hours At Napol...
The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napol...
The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napol...
The Heart of Saturday Night
The Last Rose of Summer
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me
The Ocean Doesn\'t Want Me
The One That Got Away
The Other Side Of The World
The Part You Throw Away
The Piano Has Been Drinking
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
The Piano Has Been Drinking Not Me
The Return of Jackie and Judy
The Wages of Love
There's Only Alice
This is How it Should Be Done
This is How it Works
This One's From the Heart
This One\'s From the Heart
Til The Money Runs Out
Time
Time (Live)
Tom Traubert's Blues
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In C...
Tom Traubert\'s Blues
Tom Traubert’s Blues
Top Of The Hill
Town With No Cheer
Train Song
Trampled Rose
Trouble's Braids
Trouble\'s Braids
Twenty Nine Dollars
U in Me (Bonus Track)
Underground
Union Square
Unpretty
Unpretty (Don\'t Look Any Further Remix With Rap)
Virginia Ave
Virginia Ave.
Virginia Avenue
Walk Away
Walking Spanish
Warm Beer and Cold Women
Watch Her Disappear
Waterfalls
Way Down in the Hole
Way Down Inthe
We're All Mad Here
What About Your Friends
What Keeps Mankind Alive
What's He Building?
What\'s He Building?
When You Ain't Got Nobody
WHEN YOU AIN\'T GOT NOBODY
Whislin Past The Graveyard
Whistle Down the Wind
Whistlin' Past the Graveyard
Whistlin'past The Graveyard
Whistlin\' Past The Graveyard
Who Are You
Woe
Wrong Side of the Road
Yesterday Is Here
You Can't Unring a Bell
You Can\'t Unring a Bell
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