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Well, he came home from the war with a party in his head<br />And a modified Brougham DeVille<br />And a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings<br />And a mad dog that wouldn?t sit still<br />He went and took up with a Salvation Army Band girl<br />Who played dirty water from a swordfishtrombone<br />He went to sleep at the bottom of Tenkiller Lake<br />He said, ?Gee, but it?s great to be home?<br /><br />Well, he came home from the war with a party in his head<br />And an idea for a fireworks display<br />And he knew that he?d be ready with a stainless steel machete<br />And a half a pint of Ballantine?s each day<br />And he holed up in room above a hardware store<br />Crying nothing there but Hollywood tears<br />And he put a spell on some poor little Crutchfield girl<br />And he stayed like that for twenty-seven years<br /><br />He packed up all his expectations, he lit out for California<br />With a flyswatter banjo on his knee<br />With Lucky Tiger in his angel hair, and Benzedrine for getting there<br />They found him in a eucalyptus tree<br />Lieutenant got him a canary bird, and skanked her head with every word<br />And Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song<br />He got twenty years for loving her from some Oklahoma governor<br />Said everything this doughboy does is wrong<br /><br />Now some say he?s doing the obituary mambo<br />Now some say that he?s hanging on the wall<br />Perhaps this yarn is the only thing that holds this man together<br />Some say that he was never here at all<br /><br />Some say they saw him down in Birmingham<br />Sleeping in a boxcar going by<br />And if you think that you can tell a bigger tale<br />I swear to God you?d have to tell a lie<br /><br />Music & Lyrics by: Tom Waits<br />Official release: ?Swordfishtrombones?, Island Records Inc., © 1983
New song lyrics
Well, he came home from the war with a party in his head<br />And a modified Brougham DeVille<br />And a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings<br />And a mad dog that wouldn?t sit still<br />He went and took up with a Salvation Army Band girl<br />Who played dirty water from a swordfishtrombone<br />He went to sleep at the bottom of Tenkiller Lake<br />He said, ?Gee, but it?s great to be home?<br /><br />Well, he came home from the war with a party in his head<br />And an idea for a fireworks display<br />And he knew that he?d be ready with a stainless steel machete<br />And a half a pint of Ballantine?s each day<br />And he holed up in room above a hardware store<br />Crying nothing there but Hollywood tears<br />And he put a spell on some poor little Crutchfield girl<br />And he stayed like that for twenty-seven years<br /><br />He packed up all his expectations, he lit out for California<br />With a flyswatter banjo on his knee<br />With Lucky Tiger in his angel hair, and Benzedrine for getting there<br />They found him in a eucalyptus tree<br />Lieutenant got him a canary bird, and skanked her head with every word<br />And Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song<br />He got twenty years for loving her from some Oklahoma governor<br />Said everything this doughboy does is wrong<br /><br />Now some say he?s doing the obituary mambo<br />Now some say that he?s hanging on the wall<br />Perhaps this yarn is the only thing that holds this man together<br />Some say that he was never here at all<br /><br />Some say they saw him down in Birmingham<br />Sleeping in a boxcar going by<br />And if you think that you can tell a bigger tale<br />I swear to God you?d have to tell a lie<br /><br />Music & Lyrics by: Tom Waits<br />Official release: ?Swordfishtrombones?, Island Records Inc., © 1983
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