ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Thousand Bing Bangs Lyrics</title><!-- saved from url=(0029)http://www.ripcat.idps.co.uk/ --> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="description" content="Tom Waits Silver Cloud Lounge - Bestowing information about Tom Waits to the musically appreciative populace"> <META NAME="keywords" content="Tom Waits, tom waits, tomwaits, TomWaits, Waits Tom, Silver Cloud Lounge, Closing Time, Heart Of Saturday Night, Small Change, Foreign Affairs, Blue Valentine, Heartattack And Vine, Swordfishtrombones, Raindogs, Franks Wild Years, Bone Machine, Black Rider, Mule Variations, Early Years, One From The Heart, Night On Earth, Beautiful Maladies, Bounced Cheques, Asylum Years, Nighthawks At The Diner, Bigtime, Holly Cole, Chuck E Weiss, Tom, Waits, "> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="notepad"> <META NAME="author" CONTENT= "paul@webmartin.co.uk"> <META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright © 2002 WebMartin Software Solutions"> </HEAD> <BODY BACKGROUND="../graphics/background.jpg" BGCOLOR="#DEDDD1" VLINK="BLUE"> <LINK REL=STYLESHEET TYPE="text/css" HREF="../style.css"> <SCRIPT><!-- defaultStatus = document.title; //--></SCRIPT> <CENTER> <TABLE CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=3 WIDTH="90%" BGCOLOR="#DEDDD1"> <TR ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="GRAY"> <TH COLSPAN=2> <FONT COLOR="#DEDDD1"> <FONT SIZE="6">Thousand Bing Bangs - Lyrics</FONT></TH></TR> </FONT> <TR ALIGN="CENTER"> </TABLE> <hr width="90%"> <A NAME="thousandbingbangs"></A> <TABLE CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=2 BORDER=3 WIDTH="90%" BGCOLOR="#DEDDD1"> <TR BGCOLOR="SILVER"><TH COLSPAN="2">Thousand Bing Bangs<BR>(Nordine 1991) <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH="50%"> <table width"80%"> <tr><td width="15%"><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>She drove a big ol Lincoln with suicide doors and a sewing machine in the back</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>Thousand bing bangs near the end. Nothing s ever what it was</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And a light bulb that looked like an alligator egg was mounted up front on the hood</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>Had myself a kind of brainstorm. Took a table spoon of buzz</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And she had a tattoo gun that she d made herself from a cassette motor and a guitar string</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>X-ray eyes can see right through me. Naked thought, put on your clothes</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And she always had leaves in her hair</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>You hear that funny laughing? Just the caw of ancient crows</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And she cut two holes in the back of her dress, cause she had these scapular wings</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>Somewhere near the raveled edges, by the pool of Think-a-Bit</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And they were covered with feathers and electrical tape, and when she got good and drunk she would sing</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>Once again the notion hits me: Half is quite a bit of wit</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>About Elkhart, Indiana, where the wind is tall and folks mind their own business</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>Power up that upper story. Ten percent is all you use</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And she had a hundred old baseballs that she d taken from kids, and she collected bones of all kinds</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>Take a flight of simple fancy. You re the one who has to choose</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And she lived in a trailer under the bridge, and she made her own whiskey and gave cigarettes to kids</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>Okay. All right for you. Look into the tiger s eye</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And she d been struck by lightning seven or eight times, and she hated the mention of rain</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>See if you can see the desert. Pour a drink, my throat is dry</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And she made up her own language and she wore rubber boots. She could fix anything with string</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>Poetry ain t gonna catch me. Climb up this high plateau</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And her lips were like cherries, and she was stronger than any man, and she smelled like nutmeg and piss</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>Finish up what you were thinking, just a day or so ago</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tom Waits:</b></td><td>And she put mud on a bee sting I got at the crick, and she gave me my very first kiss</td></tr> <tr><td><b>Ken Nordine:</b></td><td>Illustrate for visionaries: Go buy a doodle pad.<br> Basically</td></tr> </table> </TD> </TR> <TR ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="LIGHTGREY"><TD COLSPAN="2"><A HREF="Reviews.htm">Reviews</A></TD> </TABLE> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript" SRC="../javascript/waitsnav.js"></SCRIPT> </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML>