[00:00.000] 作词 : Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan
[00:00.231] 作曲 : Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan
[00:00.462] Like E. E. Cummings said
[00:03.399] “Damn everything but the circus”
[00:08.143] We put up our tent on a dark
[00:10.004] Green knoll, outside of town by the train tracks and a seagull dump
[00:16.553] Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel
[00:19.794] And her 'Marvellous Pigs In Satin'
[00:23.944] We pounded our stakes in the ground
[00:26.445] All powder brown
[00:27.963] And the branches spread like scary
[00:30.023] Fingers reaching
[00:33.880] We were in a pasture outside Kankakee
[00:37.508] And One Eyed Myra, the queen of the galley who trained the
[00:42.296] Ostrich and the camels
[00:44.621] She looked at me squinty with her
[00:47.039] One good eye in a Roy Orbison
[00:50.050] T-shirt as she bottle fed
[00:52.945] An orangutan named Tripod
[00:56.894] And then there was
[00:58.134] Yodeling Elaine the
[00:59.413] Queen of the air who wore a
[01:01.647] Dollar sign medallion and she
[01:04.076] Had a tiny bubble of spittle around her nostril
[01:07.607] and a little rusty tear, for she had
[01:10.804] Lassoed and lost another
[01:13.539] Tipsy sailor
[01:16.048] And over in the burnt yellow tent
[01:18.413] By the frozen tractor, the music was like electric sugar
[01:22.616] And Zuzu Bolin played 'Stavin' Chain' and Mighty
[01:27.633] Tiny on the saw and he
[01:29.927] Threw his head back with a mouth full of gold teeth
[01:33.421] And they played 'Lopsided heart'
[01:35.618] And 'Moon over Dog Street'
[01:37.883] And by the time they played "Moanin Low"
[01:40.940] I was soakin' wet and wild eyed
[01:45.186] And Doctor Bliss slipped me a preparation and I fell asleep with
[01:50.481] 'Livery Stable Blues' in my ear
[01:53.922] And me and Molley Hoey drank
[01:56.030] Pruno and Koolaid and she had a tattoo gun made out of a cassette
[02:00.960] Motor and a guitar string and
[02:03.225] She soaked a hanky in 3 Roses
[02:06.162] And rubbed it on the spot
[02:07.536] And drew a rickety heart and
[02:10.099] A bent arrow and it hurt like hell
[02:13.816] And Funeral Wells spun
[02:15.988] Poodle Murphy on the target
[02:18.435] As he threw his hardware,
[02:21.379] Only once in Sheboygan did he miss
[02:24.670] At a matinee on Diamond Pier and
[02:28.272] She'd never let him forget it
[02:30.852] They were doing two shows and she
[02:33.362] Had a high fever and he took
[02:35.528] Off a piece of her ear and
[02:37.475] Tip Little told her she should
[02:39.686] Leave the bum
[02:41.583] But Poodle said, "He fetched me
[02:43.715] Last time I run."
[02:45.787] But I'd like to hammer this ring into a bullet
[02:50.302] And I wish I had some whiskey and a gun
[02:52.225] My dear
[02:53.889] And I wish I had some whiskey and a gun
[02:56.928] My dear