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Swordfishtrombone
Waits Tom

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't sit still

he went and took up with a Salvation Army Band girl

who played dirty water from a swordfishtrombone

he went to sleep at the bottom of Tenkiller lake

and he said gee, but it's 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'd be ready with a stainless steel machete

and a half a pint of Ballentine's each day

and he holed up in room above a hardware store

cryin' nothing there but Hollywood tears

and he put a spell on some poor little Crutchfield girl

and stayed like that for 27 years



Well 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

and Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song and he got 20 years for lovin' her from some Oklahoma governor

said everything this Doughboy does is wrong



Now some say he's doing

the obituary mambo and some say he's hanging on the wall

perhaps this yarn's the only thing that holds this man together

some say he was never here at all



Some say they saw him down in Birmingham, sleeping in a boxcar going by

and if you think that you can tell a bigger tale

I swear to God you'd have to tell a lie...


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