Tom Waits: Chair, vocal Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges: Drums Randy Aldcroft: Trombone Victor Feldman: Marimba, bass marimba & shaker, bass drum with rice Larry Taylor: Acoustic bass Fred Tackett: Banjo, guitar Francis Thumm: Metal aunglongs Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart I rolled down the national stroll And with a big fat paycheck Strapped to my hip sack And a shore leave wristwatch underneath My sleeve In a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank And I'd left all my papers on the Ticonderoga And was in a bad need of a shave And so I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein And shot billards with a midget Until the rain stopped And I bought a long sleeved shirt With horses on the front And some gum and a lighter and a knife And a new deck of cards (with girls on the back) And I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife And I said Baby, I'm so far away from home And I miss my Baby so I can't make it by myself I love you so