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Notes:

⁽¹⁾ Sins Of The Father:
- Tom Waits (2004): "We started with a rock-steady beat on "Sins of My Father," and Larry Taylor said: "I won't play that reggae s--t. I don't play that (rock-steady style)." He's played with Jerry Lee Lewis, Canned Heat - he's played with everybody - and he said: "I won't do it, man!" (laughing) I said: "Come on, Larry!"" (Source: "Tom Waits Interview". San Diego Union Tribune (USA). October 3, 2004. By George Varga)
- Tom Waits (2004): "Well, "Sins Of My Father" is political. "Hoist That Rag" is. There's a bunch of soldier songs. JV: "Sins Of My Father': Are you talking about George W. Bush? TW: I'm talking about my father, I'm talking about your father, I'm talking about his father. The sins of the father will be visited upon the son. Everybody knows that." (Source: "Magnet Interview With Tom Waits", by Jonathan Valania. Magnet magazine (UK). October 5, 2004)

⁽²⁾ Tin horn: tinhorn adj. [late 19C+] second-rate, inferior, superficially, flashy., [abbr. gambling use tinhorn gambler, a second-rate class gambler. (Source: "Cassel's Dictionary Of Slang. Jonathan Green. Cassel & Co, 1998. ISBN: 0-304-35167-9)

⁽³⁾ Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair: In the late 1970s Waits often used to perform "I Wish I Was In New Orleans" as a medley with the Foster classic "I Dream Of Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair" (Written by Stephen Foster, 1854) "I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair Borne like a vapor on the summer air I see her tripping where the bright streams play Happy as the daisies that dance on her way. Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour, Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair Floating like a vapor on the soft, summer air. I sigh for Jeannie, but her light form strayed Far from the fond parts round her native glade; Her smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown Flitting like the dreams that have cheered us and gone."

⁽⁴⁾ Gravel on the road: Notice same phrase being used in Day After Tomorrow (Real Gone, 2004): "I just do what I've been told. We're just the gravel on the road."

⁽⁵⁾ Gavel: The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc. (Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.)

⁽⁶⁾ Smack dab: Smack-dab adv. [late 19C+] (US) exactly, precisely. [echoic] (Source: "Cassell's Dictionary Of Slang". Jonathon Green. Cassel & Co., 1998)

⁽⁷⁾ Everybody knows that the game was rigged: 
- Rigged: To manipulate dishonestly for personal gain: rig a prizefight; rig stock prices. (Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company)
- Could be hinting at accusations against G.W. Bush not actually having had enough votes for being elected president (2000). Or accusations against the US government for spreading false justifications for invading Afghanistan (October, 2001) and Iraq (March, 2003). Note: "God all mighty for righteousness sake, Humiliation of our fallen state."

⁽⁸⁾ Written in the book of tubold Cain:
- Refering biblical Cain: According to Genesis 4: 1-16. 'The Mahometan tradition of the death of Abel is this: Cain was born with a twin sister who was named Aclima, and Abel with a twin sister named Jumella. Adam wished Cain to marry Abel's twin sister, and Abel to marry Cain's. Cain would not consent to this arrangement, and Adam proposed to refer the question to God by means of a sacrifice. God rejected Cain's sacrifice to signify his disapproval of his marriage with Aclima, his twin sister, and Cain slew his brother in a fit of jealousy. (Source: The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer).
- Notice other references to Cain and Abel: Dirt In The Ground, 1992 ("Now Cain slew Abel, he killed him with a stone"), Walk Away, 1995 ("Dot King was whittled from the bone of Cain") and Make It Rain, 2004 ("I'm not Able, I'm just Cain")
- Also transcribed as "Tubol Cain, Tubal Cain": Tubal-cain/ Tubalcaine the son of Lamech and Zillah, "an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron" (Gen. 4:22; R.V., "the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron"). (Source: WebBible Encyclopedia. Eden Communications. Copyright 2000-2003, Eden Communications)

⁽⁹⁾ Scaffold: n. 1. A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc. 2. Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold. (Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.)

⁽¹⁰⁾ To dance upon nothing to the tyborn jig:
- Tom Waits (2004): "When someone was being hung, the dance they would do at the end of the rope was called the Tyburn Jig. It was also called "the dance upon nothing"; that kind of explains itself. The reason theaters traditionally have no performances on Monday night is because Monday night was Hanging Night, and nobody could compete with Hanging Night. To this day, theaters are dark on Mondays ." (Source: "Magnet Interview With Tom Waits", by Jonathan Valania. Magnet magazine (UK). October 5, 2004)
- Tyburn was the principal location in London for public executions by hanging. It was an extreme western suburb of London, and executions took place there for many centuries. Tyburn gallows, as depicted by William Hogarth in his print, The Idle 'Prentice executed at Tyburn (1747), was a triangle in plan, having three legs to stand upon. It came first into existence in 1571 at the execution of Dr. John Story. It was fixed in the open space at the end of Edgware Road, formed by the junction of the roads near where the Marble Arch now stands. The location was well known, appearing in many cant phrases and folk songs: "Tyburn Tree" being the scaffold; "To dance the Tyburn Jig" meaning to be hanged, etc. In 1759, the old Triple Tree was removed, and a new movable gallows, set up near the union of Bryanston Street and Edgware Road, superseded it. The last person executed at Tyburn was John Austin on November 3, 1783.

⁽¹¹⁾ Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds:
- Jonathan Valania (2004): What about some of these characters on the new album? There's the line "Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds." TW: Well, if there is a Jesus of Nazareth, there had to be a Mike of the weeds and a Bob of the parking lot, Jim of the river, Steve of the backyard. JV: Was Weeds the next town over from Nazareth? TW: No, Mike lived in the weeds. Jesus lived in Nazareth. They corresponded. JV: There was a guy back in Jesus' time named Mike? TW: I don't know if they pronounced it like that. (Source: "Magnet Interview With Tom Waits", by Jonathan Valania. Magnet magazine (UK). October 5, 2004)

⁽¹²⁾ Jesus of ... so sublime: On the RaindogsToo Listserv discussionlist (October 6, 2004) Gary Tausch (Tom Waits Miscellania) pointed out that this verse was already used during the Mule Variations tour (as an extra verse to Get Behind The Mule. Hummingbird Centre. Toronto/ Canada. August 23/24, 1999). It could be Sins Of The Father is actually a Mule Variations outtake.