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A Cincinnati jacket and a sad-luck dame
Hanging out the window with a bottle full of rain
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
Said roar, roar, the thunder and the roar
Son of a bitch is never coming back here no more
The moon in the window and a bird on the pole
We can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
Said steam, steam, a hundred bad dreams
Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
A fifty-dollar bill inside a palladin's hat
And nobody's sure where Mr. Knickerbocker's at
Roar, roar, the thunder and the roar
Son of a bitch is never coming back here no more
Moon in the window and a bird on the pole
Can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
I said steam, steam, a hundred bad dreams
Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
A fifty-dollar bill inside a palladin's hat
And nobody's sure where Mr. Knickerbocker's at
Shine, shine, a Roosevelt dime
All the way to Baltimore and running out of time
Salvation Army seemed to wind up in the hole
They all went to heaven in a little row boat
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
A Cincinnati jacket and a sad-luck dame
Hanging out the window with a bottle full of rain
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
Said roar, roar, the thunder and the roar
Son of a bitch is never coming back here no more
The moon in the window and a bird on the pole
We can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
Said steam, steam, a hundred bad dreams
Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
A fifty-dollar bill inside a palladin's hat
And nobody's sure where Mr. Knickerbocker's at
Roar, roar, the thunder and the roar
Son of a bitch is never coming back here no more
Moon in the window and a bird on the pole
Can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
I said steam, steam, a hundred bad dreams
Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
A fifty-dollar bill inside a palladin's hat
And nobody's sure where Mr. Knickerbocker's at
Shine, shine, a Roosevelt dime
All the way to Baltimore and running out of time
Salvation Army seemed to wind up in the hole
They all went to heaven in a little row boat
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 21:00 Cynaera wrote: I seriously think that I need to buy a few of Tom Waits' CDs - this one, for sure - just because whenever things start looking a little TOO good in my life, I need the uneasiness of a song I can't readily understand to remind me of how very good I actually have it.  Miss you so much, Cynaera... everybody in my church loves this song... |
| MirageRF (Clemmons, NC, USA) | Posted: Mar 31, 2013 - 10:09 Everyone in the commune loves this song!  |
| Pilgrim301 (Edmonton, AB) | Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 14:24 Ooooh, reminds me of a boyfriend. That wild roller-coaster life-changing relationship lasted two weeks; I remember it not with bitterness or regret but whatever the equivalent is of drinking the dregs of the coffee pot. With grounds in your cup. Obviously, there was some great music in there, too. He dropped me for a woman he later married ... they're still married, twenty years later. Somehow that makes me feel better about it all. *smile* |
| karljonasson (Edmonton, AB, Canada) | Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 14:18 If this isn't a 10, nothing is. |
| whomhow (changeable) | Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 14:18 I'm really happy to hear on RP something from brilliant Rain Dogs album. 9. |
| funkyalfonso (Vancouver Island) | Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 14:17 Gamalang....I like it. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Aug 08, 2012 - 06:06 terrapin52 wrote: Yep. Just what I thought. It's a white guy trying to sound black. You've got weird thought processes. Waits sounds like a drunk hobo with a 2-pack-a-day habit, deliberately so I'm sure as he's an astounding street poet. There's only one image goes through my mind when I hear Waits, and that's of an ancient white down-and-out in a dirty mac clutching a bottle and sleeping on park benches. He's the songwriting equivalent of the crime writer James Ellroy who had a down-and-out background. If you reckon he's trying to sound black, perhaps you could give examples of black dudes who sound like that? I'm damned if I can think of any. |
| Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Aug 08, 2012 - 06:01 ...but I don't hear anyone clapping.... |
| Proclivities (Paris of the Piedmont) | Posted: Jul 23, 2012 - 04:08 secretsauce wrote: OK, tell us. What's a Cincinnati jacket?  You asked... |
| Stranglersfan (Revelstoke, B.C.) | Posted: Jul 07, 2012 - 19:32 yes 10 |
| The_Enemy (...is within) | Posted: Jun 21, 2012 - 16:55 secretsauce wrote: OK, tell us. What's a Cincinnati jacket? There's a hood that crumples into the high collar.  |
| jhorton (Trailer Park on Cape Cod) | Posted: Jun 21, 2012 - 16:50 Everybody in my trailer park puts the pipe down for a second when I blast this one out of my boom box! |
| neuticle (fog fog fog) | Posted: Apr 03, 2012 - 14:25 If Howlin' Wolf and Marge Simpson had a child out of wedlock, I think he'd sound a lot like ol' Tom here. |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Apr 03, 2012 - 14:24 I don't know how... but this one actually doesn't suck go figure. |
| gaskeydesign (Ada, Michigan) | Posted: Mar 18, 2012 - 11:46 That guitar solo by Ribot is off the hook!!!!!!!! |
| secretsauce (City of Angels) | Posted: Mar 02, 2012 - 22:03 fingerpin wrote: Had to google "A Cincinnati jacket" and I live here. Who knew? OK, tell us. What's a Cincinnati jacket? |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Feb 15, 2012 - 18:29 alcal74 wrote: TOO MUCH TOM WAITS. It seems every time I start up RP it's the gravelly voice of this hobo I hear. NOT ENOUGH TOM WAITS!! Bill, keep playing lotsa Tom Waits. Those of us with good taste love it! |
| alcal74 | Posted: Feb 15, 2012 - 17:14 TOO MUCH TOM WAITS. It seems every time I start up RP it's the gravelly voice of this hobo I hear. |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 22:54 Phototrekker wrote: Just what you thought huh? You are just what I think of when I think of South Carolina - Given the original comment, I was thinking that SC was an acronym for something quite different. |
| Phototrekker | Posted: Dec 30, 2011 - 11:12 terrapin52 wrote: Yep. Just what I thought. It's a white guy trying to sound black. Just what you thought huh? You are just what I think of when I think of South Carolina - |
| CamLwalk (Albany NY) | Posted: Dec 30, 2011 - 11:09 One of my favorite album covers. Wonderful song. |
| finoufk (Bordeaux - france) | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 05:04 so nice, so cool .....when it stops. |
| BBOGDA | Posted: Nov 12, 2011 - 12:21 Irritating. |
| terrapin52 (Terrapin Station, SC) | Posted: Nov 12, 2011 - 12:20 Yep. Just what I thought. It's a white guy trying to sound black. |
| patrick30 (Austria) | Posted: Oct 28, 2011 - 03:11 Raindogs is my favourite album!! Thanks a lot! |
| Art_Carnage (DeepintheheartofTexas) | Posted: Jul 25, 2011 - 16:31 Creepy, and not in a good way. I like Waits, but I can do without hearing this one. |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jul 09, 2011 - 17:40 I seriously think that I need to buy a few of Tom Waits' CDs - this one, for sure - just because whenever things start looking a little TOO good in my life, I need the uneasiness of a song I can't readily understand to remind me of how very good I actually have it. |
| segueman (Spring, TX) | Posted: May 23, 2011 - 12:32 Very nice! Thanks for sharing. calypsus_1 wrote:  Tom Waits-christmas card by *trev-solo Trevor Grove ©2008-2010 *trev-solo This Christmas card wasn't from a Hooker in Minneapolis, but....whaddya gonna do, right? This is very similar to the other Waits piece I did, but I wanted to have some fun and make a nice Christmas card last year. (yeah, not many of my friends understood how Waits, a dead tree, and a fire-engulfed hand were good subjects for Christmas...but those people are just ridiculous, aren' t they?  )Anyway, this was done up in watercolors and colored pencils. about 7X 5 inches or so. If you guys want me to put it up as a print, I'll do that. I have a lot of plans for more Waits pieces that wouldn't fall into this vibe, so hopefully I'll get around to them this year. I want something that feels straight out of Big Time and Frank's Wild Years... So enjoy the picture! "There's got to be more than flesh and bone, All that you love is all you own"-Tom Waits Trev |
| kletzing (Munich) | Posted: May 07, 2011 - 11:38 That's because i'am listening RP - Applause out of munich |
| gabrielle7nt (4.7 miles from my summer home) | Posted: Mar 21, 2011 - 10:27 Doesn't Beck do this song too? |
| CamLwalk (Albany NY) | Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 10:35 Let's hear it for Tom. 2010 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee!! Tom Waits To Enter Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| MinMan (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 10:35 exquisite |
| finkle007 | Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 10:34 this was used for the Breaking Bad theme song, right? |
| Stranglersfan (Revelstoke, B.C.) | Posted: Nov 15, 2010 - 17:05 You can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal |
| yodasan_magoo | Posted: Aug 12, 2010 - 05:33 Best part of this song is the last note. |
| silverfingers (Auckland New Zealand) | Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 18:58 love to hear more Tom Waits! |
| CamLwalk (Albany NY) | Posted: Jun 09, 2010 - 11:38 This is so cool. |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: May 10, 2010 - 00:21 Tom Waits-christmas card by *trev-solo Trevor Grove ©2008-2010 *trev-solo This Christmas card wasn't from a Hooker in Minneapolis, but....whaddya gonna do, right? This is very similar to the other Waits piece I did, but I wanted to have some fun and make a nice Christmas card last year. (yeah, not many of my friends understood how Waits, a dead tree, and a fire-engulfed hand were good subjects for Christmas...but those people are just ridiculous, aren' t they? )Anyway, this was done up in watercolors and colored pencils. about 7X 5 inches or so. If you guys want me to put it up as a print, I'll do that. I have a lot of plans for more Waits pieces that wouldn't fall into this vibe, so hopefully I'll get around to them this year. I want something that feels straight out of Big Time and Frank's Wild Years... So enjoy the picture! "There's got to be more than flesh and bone, All that you love is all you own"-Tom Waits Trev |
| boober (KC,Mo) | Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 08:44 That's all you do when you see him in concert....(clap hands). |
| nak5ive | Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 08:43 "we can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal." what a perfect song. |
| ruthless (Midtown Memphis) | Posted: Mar 06, 2010 - 09:47 smooooth segue...... |
| iscoot4peace | Posted: Dec 17, 2009 - 08:48 One of my all time favorite Tom Waits tunes from one of his best albums. 9. |
| smdeeg (SillyCone Valley) | Posted: Nov 15, 2009 - 23:08 mandolin wrote: ...ohmigosh, i can hear it now!.. ...it's weird how phonemes and dipthongs can transform so completely based upon expected perception, like an auditory escher piece, but there it is, distinctly enunciated: claire danes...actually, it's almost like a stereogram: you can't see it and can't see it, and then suddenly for an instant it pops into perfect focus, then you lose it again and strain and strain and then suddenly there it is again... Hah! Claire Danes. It's certainly a funny mondegreen, and I can kinda see where it comes from, but I don't hear it. I guess I've just listened to this too many times over the last 20 odd years for it to resolve for me. The song certainly brings me back though. I don't listen to a lot of Tom, but for some reason this album just really struck my friends and I at that time. I may have to turn off RP (*gasp*) and listen to the rest of Rain Dogs. |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver BC, Bud) | Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 12:48 Tom Waits & Escher? They're both great. I don't see a problem. |
| SweTex (Swede living in Texas) | Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 12:21 Great song from a Great Artist.On another note, that is not a young Mr Waits on the cover, even though it looks like him. That picture was taken from a book with pics from *sailors bars" in Europe during the 50's. And that woman is not a nun. |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Aug 29, 2009 - 16:03 mandolin wrote: ...ohmigosh, i can hear it now!.. ...it's weird how phonemes and dipthongs can transform so completely based upon expected perception, like an auditory escher piece, but there it is, distinctly enunciated: claire danes...actually, it's almost like a stereogram: you can't see it and can't see it, and then suddenly for an instant it pops into perfect focus, then you lose it again and strain and strain and then suddenly there it is again... I wouldn't listen to it twice just to hear that. And how dare you compare this tripe to Eschers work!!!! Dolt. |
| Nhodson22 | Posted: Aug 29, 2009 - 15:57 Always an auditory journey |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 10:27 ...ohmigosh, i can hear it now!.. ...it's weird how phonemes and dipthongs can transform so completely based upon expected perception, like an auditory escher piece, but there it is, distinctly enunciated: claire danes...actually, it's almost like a stereogram: you can't see it and can't see it, and then suddenly for an instant it pops into perfect focus, then you lose it again and strain and strain and then suddenly there it is again... |
| fingerpin (OhiO) | Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 10:26 Had to google "A Cincinnati jacket" and I live here. Who knew? |
| Screature (Gatineau, Quebec, Canada) | Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 10:26 Tom is a God!!!  |
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