Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Tom Traubert's Blues, artist - Tom Waits.
Date of issue: 20.09.1976
Song language: English
Tom Traubert's Blues |
Wasted and wounded |
And it ain’t what the moon did |
I got what I paid for now |
See you tomorrow |
Hey Frank can I borrow |
A couple of bucks from you |
To go waltzing Matilda waltzing Matilda |
You’ll go waltzing Matilda with me |
I’m an innocent victim |
of a blinded alley |
And I’m tired of all these soldiers here |
No-one speaks English |
And everything’s broken |
And my strength is soaking away |
To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda |
You’ll go a waltzing Malitda with me Now the dogs they are barking |
and the taxi cab’s parking |
A lot they can do for me I begged you to stab me You tore my shirt open |
And I’m down on my knees tonight |
Old bushmills I staggered |
You buried the dagger |
Your silhouette window light |
To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda |
You’ll go a waltzing Matilda with me Now I’ve lost my St. Christopher |
Now that I kissed her |
And the one-arm bandit knows |
And the maverick Chinaman |
with the cold-blooded sigh |
And the girls down by the striptease shows go Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda |
You’ll go a waltzing Matilda with me No I don’t want your sympathy |
Fugitives say |
that the streets aren’t for dreaming now |
Manslaughter dragnet |
and the ghost that sells memories |
Want a piece of the action anyhow |
Go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda |
You’ll go waltzing Matilda with me And you can ask any sailor |
And the keys from the jailor |
And the old men in wheelchairs know |
That Matilda’s the defendant |
She killed about a hundred |
And she follows wherever you may go Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda |
You’ll go waltzing Matilda with me And it’s a battered old suitcase |
in a hotel someplace |
And a wound that would never heal |
No prima donnas the perfume is on and old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey |
And goodnight to the street-sweepers, |
The night watchmen flame-keepers |
And goodnight Matilda too |
Goodnight Matilda too. |