The Ghosts of Saturday Night Lyrics by Tom Waits

(from the album The Heart Of Saturday Night)

(after hours at napoleone's pizza house)

A cab combs the snake,
Tryin' to rake in that last night's fare,
And a solitary sailor
Who spends the facts of his life
Like small change on strangers...

Paws his inside p-coat pocket
For a welcome twenty-five cents,
And the last bent butt from a package of kents,
As he dreams of a waitress with maxwell house eyes
And marmalade thighs with scrambled yellow hair.

Her rhinestone-studded moniker says, "irene"
As she wipes the wisps of dishwater blonde from her eyes

And the texaco beacon burns on,
The steel-belted attendant with a 'ring and valve special'...
Cryin' "fill'er up and check that oil"
"you know it could be a distributor and it could be a coil."

The early mornin' final edition's on the stands,
And that town cryer's cryin' there with nickels in his hands.
Pigs in a blanket sixty-nine cents,
Eggs - roll 'em over and a package of kents,
Adam and eve on a log, you can sink 'em damn straight,
Hash browns, hash browns, you know I can't be late.

And the early dawn cracks out a carpet of diamond
Across a cash crop car lot
Filled with twilight coupe devilles,
Leaving the town in a-keeping
Of the one who is sweeping
Up the ghost of saturday night...

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Other Lyrics from The Heart Of Saturday Night

1. Diamonds On My Windshield Lyrics
2. Drunk On The Moon Lyrics
3. Fumblin' With The Blues Lyrics
4. New Coat Of Paint Lyrics
5. Please Call Me, Baby Lyrics
6. San Diego Serenade Lyrics
7. Semi Suite Lyrics
8. Shiver Me Timbers Lyrics

Other Tom Waits Albums

• One From The Heart (Soundtrack) Lyrics
• Blue Valentine Lyrics
• Closing Time Lyrics
• Nighthawks At The Diner Lyrics
• Foreign Affairs Lyrics
• Small Change Lyrics
• Heartattack And Vine Lyrics
• Swordfishtrombones Lyrics
• Rain Dogs Lyrics
• Franks Wild Years Lyrics
• Big Time Lyrics
• The Early Years, Vol. 1 Lyrics
• Bone Machine Lyrics
• Night On Earth (Soundtrack) Lyrics
• The Black Rider Lyrics
• The Early Years, Vol. 2 Lyrics
• Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years Lyrics
• Mule Variations Lyrics
• Used Songs (1973-1980) Lyrics
• Blood Money Lyrics
• Alice (The Original Demos) Lyrics
• Orphans Lyrics

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