Good Old World (Waltz)
(Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 1991)
When I was a boy, the moon was a pearl the sun a yellow gold
But when I was a man, the wind blew cold the hills were upside down
But now that I have gone from here there's no place I'd rather be
Than to float my chances on the tide back in the good old world
On October's last, I'll fly back home rolling down winding way
And all I've got's a pocket full of flowers on my grave
But now summer is gone I remember it best back in the good old world
I remember when, she held my hand we walked home alone in the rain
How pretty her mouth, how soft her hair nothing can be the same
And there's a rose upon her breast where I long to lay my head
And her hair was so yellow and the wine was so red back in the good old world
And there's a rose upon her breast where I long to lay my head
And her hair was so yellow and the wine is so red back in the good old world
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