Текст песни Tom Waits - Whistlin Past The Graveyard

(Guitar)

(and on the 8th time it goes up to the Chorus like so)   

(And back to the  verse pattern shown above)

(All this fits beautifully with this bass pattern)

                                    (back to pattern)

    Well I come in on a night train       With an arm full of box cars
    On the wings of a magpie              Cross a hooligan night
    And I busted up a chifforobe          Way out by the cocomo
   Cooked up a mess a mulligan            And got into a fight

Whistlin' past the graveyard    Steppin on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubbard        Papa one-eyed jack

    You've probably seen me sleepin     Out by the railroad tracks
    Go on and ask the prince of darkness    What about all that smoke come from the stack
    Sometimes I kill myself a jacket    suck out all the blood
    Steal myself a station wagon        Drive it through the mud

Whistlin' past the graveyard    Steppin on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubbard        Papa one-eyed jack

    I know you seen my headlights       And the honkin' of my horn
    I'm callin' out my bloodhounds      Chase the devil through the corn
    Last night I chugged the Mississippi    Now that sucker's dry as a bone
    Born in a taxi cab     I'm never comin' home

Whistlin' past the graveyard    Steppin on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubbard        Papa one-eyed jack

    My eyes have seen the glory         Of the draining of the ditch
    I only come to baton rouge          To find myself a witch
    I'm-ona snatch me up a couple of 'em         every time it rains
    You see a locomotive prob'ly      thinkin' it's a train

Whistlin' past the graveyard    Steppin on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubbard        Papa one-eyed jack

    What you think is the sunshine      Is just a twinkle in my eye
    That ring around my fingers   it's just the 4th of July
    When I get a little bit lonesome    And a tear falls from my cheek
    There's gonna be an ocean in the mid - dle of the week

Whistlin' past the graveyard    Steppin on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubbard        Papa one-eyed jack

    I rode into town on a night train   with an arm full of box cars
    On the wings of a magpie            cross a hooligan night
    I'ma tear me off a rainbow  and wear it for a tie
    I never told the truth      so I can never tell a lie

Whistlin' past the graveyard    Steppin on a crack
I'm a mean motherhubbard        Papa one-eyed jack