Circus-Tom Waits

[00:03.48]We put up our tent on a dark [00:06.01]Green knoll, outside of town by [00:07.94]The train tracks and a seagull dump [00:12.02]Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel [00:15.08]And her Marvelous Pigs in satin [00:20.19]We pounded our steaks in the ground [00:22.34]All powder brown [00:25.09]And the branches spread like scary [00:27.25]Fingers reaching – we [00:30.87]Were in a pasture outside Kankakee [00:35.56]And one-eyed Myra, the queen of [00:37.94]The galley who trained the [00:39.43]Ostrich and the camels [00:42.76]She looked at me squinty with her [00:44.65]One good eye in a Roy Orbison [00:47.99]T-shirt as she bottle fed [00:50.83]An Orangutan named [00:52.78]Tripod and then there was [00:55.85]Yodeling Elaine the [00:58.00]Queen of the air who wore a [01:01.00]Dollar sign medallion and she [01:03.73]Had a tiny bubble of spittle [01:06.30]Around her nostril and a [01:07.98]Little rusty tear, for she had [01:10.80]Lassoed and lost another [01:13.82]Tipsy sailor and over in [01:17.12]The burnt yellow tent [01:19.37]By the frozen tractor, the [01:21.28]Music was like electric sugar [01:25.32]And Zuzu Bolin played [01:27.34]"Stavin' Chain" [01:30.65]And Mighty Tiny on the saw and he [01:34.03]Threw his head back with a [01:35.85]Mouth full of gold teeth [01:37.27]And they played "Lopsided Heart" [01:39.49]And "Moon Over Dog Street" and [01:42.60]By the time they played "Moanin' Low" [01:45.82]I was soakin' wet and wild eyed [01:50.94]And Doctor Bliss slipped me a [01:53.03]Preparation and I fell asleep with [01:56.33]"Livery Stable Blues" in my earAnd me and Molly Hoey drank [02:26.62]Pruno and Kool-Aid. She had a [02:32.46]Tattoo gun made out of a [02:35.03]Cassette motor and a guitar string and [02:39.51]She soaked a hanky in Three Roses [02:42.84]And rubbed it on the spot [02:45.45]And she drew a rickety heart and [02:47.70]A bent arrow and it hurt like hell [02:53.37]And Funeral Wells spun [02:55.88]Poodle Murphy on the target [02:58.52]As he threw his hardware [03:01.71]Only once in Sheboygan did he miss [03:05.79]At a matinee on Diamond Pier and [03:09.32]She'd never let him forget it [03:12.81]They were doing two shows and she [03:15.95]Had a high fever and he took [03:18.81]Off a piece of her ear and [03:21.35]Tip Little told her she should [03:23.71]Leave the bum but [03:26.62]Poodle said, "He fetched me [03:28.53]Last time I run and I'd [03:31.82]Like to hammer this ring into [03:34.59]A bullet [03:36.76]And I wish I had some whiskey and a gun [03:41.21]My dear, I wish I had some [03:44.51]Whiskey and a gun my dear."