: (Instrumental)
: There was an old woman, lived by the seashore Bow and balance me There was an old woman, lived by the seashore A number of daughters: one, two, three
: She drove a big ol' Lincoln with suicide doors And a sewing machine in the back And a light bulb that looked like an alligator egg Was mounted up front
: (Waits/Brennan/Linkous) Oh mother I want a dog I want a little dog I saw a little dog His name is happy Well this is me ... ... old ... I could be
: Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere. And it began to
: (Alexander "Skip" Spence) Books of Moses, bringing stone news Wet in the water, weeping in the sun Books of Moses, got some splinters didn't you Books
: (Jack Kerouac) I left New York in 1949 To go across the country without a bad blame dime Montana in the cold cold fall Found my father in the gambling
: The Whirligig Beetles are wary and fast with an organ to detect the ripples. The Arachnid Moths lay their eggs inside other insects along the borders
: (Waits) Well let's see, we had the eh, we had the Fairlane. Then the u-joints went out on that and the bushings and then your mother wanted to trade
a hero Came and took his woman And they fell off the mountain Into some water And then later He came looking for his woman But they were waiting And
: The smoke from the battle fish and the rain soaked through and the wheelman left the shore and barns tumbled and silos flew across fifteen miles bad
: He's an ol' altar boy Lying out there in the street He's an ol' alter boy Bound up in leather and chains That's why I'm feeling so blue I'm an old
: Thanks, uh... You know uh, this is weird uh... Most of us have dogs, allright? (applause) I don't know if it's a local thing where I live, or if it
: Once upon a time there was a poor child, with no father and no mother And everything was dead And no one was left in the whole world Everything was
..." He goes: "Well, well you're also paying for the groceries for your mother. She uh, told me you'd take care of the bill for her." And I said: "Well, wait
: (Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan) The sky's as deep as it can be Bend down the branches Close your eyes and you will see Bend down the branches You
: (Waits/Brennan) You can never hold back spring You can be sure that I will never Stop believing The blushing rose will climb Spring ahead or fall