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Tom Waits - Jitterburg Boys Lyrics

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  • Well, I'm a jitterbug boy, by the shoe-shine
  • Resting on my laurels and my hardys too
  • Life of Riley on a swing shift, gears follow my drift
  • Once upon a time I was in show-biz too
  • I seen the Brooklyn Dodgers playing at Ebbets Field
  • Seen the Kentucky Derby too
  • It's fast women, slow horses, unreliable sources,
  • And I'm holding up the lamp-post if you want to know
  • I've seen the Wabash Cannonball, buddy, I've done it all
  • 'Cause I slept with the lions and Marilyn Monroe,
  • Had breakfast in the eye of a hurricane
  • Fought Rocky Marciano, played Minnesota Fats,
  • Burned hundred-dollar bills, I've eaten Mulligan stew
  • Got drunk with Louis Armstrong, what's that old song?
  • I taught Mickey Mantle everything that he knows
  • So you ask me what I'm doing here holding up the lamp-post,
  • Flipping this quarter, trying to make up my mind
  • And if it's heads I go to Tennessee, and tails I buy a drink,
  • If it lands on the edge I keep talking to you
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