Well I stood on the corner
Until my feet got wet
I stood by the
faucet
Till the sink filled up
I stood by the window
Until the moon came
up
My baby's bought a ticket
Long
as my clothes line
Na na na na, na-na-na
Na na na
na
My baby went and left me in a '49 Ford
Going down the highway in a 49
sword
My baby ripped my heart out
with every turn of the moon
Somebody told me
there's never been a rose
without a thorn
Na na na na, na-na-na
Na na na
Well I'm just another sad guest
on this dark earth(1)
And if I was a tree
I'd be a cut down tree
And if I was a bed
I'd be an unmade bed
I'll get my 32/20 and it'll have to do(2)
Na na na na, na-na-na
Na na na na
Gone like the wind in the meadow
And the rain on the
hill
You even left your lipstick
And your powder and your blush
Baby
gonna leave me
on a Grey Hound bus(3)
The stars are melting
all across the sky
Na na na na, na-na-na
Na na na na
I let the dog out
But he didn't come back
Stood
on the corner until
my feet got wet
Baby leave me in a '49 Ford
I
stood by the window
untill the moon came up
Na na na na, na-na-na
Na na na
na
Written by: Tom Waits and
Kathleen Waits-Brennan
Published by: Jalma Music (ASCAP), © 2004
Official release: Real Gone, (P) & © 2004 Anti Inc.
Known covers:
None
Notes:
(1) I'm just another sad guest on this dark earth: quoting from Make It Rain: "Since you're gone Deep inside it hurts, I'm just another sad guest on this dark earth ." Could be quoted from Goethe: "Und so lang du das nicht hast, Dieses: Stirb und werde! Bist du nur ein trüber Gast, Auf der dunklen Erde." (Trans: And so long as you haven't experienced this, to die and so to grow. You are only a troubled guest, on this dark earth.) From: "Selige Sehnsucht", 1814.
(2) I'll get my 32/20 and it'll have to do: refers to the Robert Johnson song "32-20 Blues" (recorded on 26 November 1936 in San Antonio, Texas). "I sent for my baby, and she don't come I sent for my baby, man, and she don't come All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can't help her none And if she gets unruly, thinks she don't want do If she gets unruly, and thinks she don't want do Take my 32-20, and cut her half in two She got a thirty-eight special, but I believe it's most too light She got a thirty-eight special, but I believe it's most too light I got a 32-20, got to make the camps alright If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can't help her none I'm gonna shoot my pistol, gonna shoot my Gatlin' gun I'm gonna shoot my pistol, gonna shoot my Gatlin' gun You made me love you, now your man have come Aw baby, where you stay last night? Ah baby, where you stay last night? You got your hair all tangled, and you ain't talkin' right Got a thirty-eight special, boys, it do very well Got a thirty-eight special, boys, it do very well I Got a 32-20 now, and it's a burnin' -- If I send for my baby, man and she don't come If I send for my baby, man and she don't come All the doctors in Wisconsin sure can't help her none Hey hey baby, where you stay last night Hey hey baby, where you stayed last night You didn't come home until the sun was shinin' bright Ah boys, I just can't take my rest Ah boys, I just can't take my rest With this 32-20 layin' up and down my breast."
(3) Greyhound bus: American Greyhound bus line, featuring Greyhound logo. Apparently associated with economy/ low class traveling. Greyhound began its operations in 1914 as the Mesaba Transportation Company in Hibbing, Minnesota, when Carl Eric Wickman began transporting miners from Hibbing to Alice, Minnesota. Further reading: Don's Greyhound Bus Memories, Greyhound official site