Tom Traubert's Blues Lyrics

Late night and early morning low cloudsWith a chance of fogChance of showers into the afternoonWith variable high cloudinessAnd gusty winds, gusty windsAt times around the corner o...Read Full Lyrics

The prettiest girlIn all the worldIs in a little Spanish townBut I left her for a Bonnie lassAnd I told herI'd see her aroundBut that Bonnie lassAnd her heart of glassWould not hol...Read Full Lyrics

I don't mind working, 'cause I used to be jerking off most of my time in bars,I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerkAnd a manic mechanic on cars.It's ni...Read Full Lyrics

Well she's up against the register with an apron and a spatula,Yesterday's deliveries, tickets for the bachelorsShe's a moving violation from her conk down to her shoesWell, it's j...Read Full Lyrics

Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blueScrawled across the shoulders of a dying townTook the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracksAnd the scar on its belly pulled a stranger pa...Read Full Lyrics

There's a blur drizzle down the plate glass As a neon swizzle stick stirrin' up the sultry night air And a yellow biscuit of a buttery cue ball moon Rollin' maverick across an obsi...Read Full Lyrics

Well, the Ice Man's mule is parked outside the barWhere a man with missing fingers plays a strange guitarAnd the German dwarf dances with the butcher's sonAnd tonight a little rain...Read Full Lyrics

Let's put a new coat of paintOn this lonesome old townSet 'em up, we'll be knockin' 'em downYou wear a dressBaby I'll a tieWe'll laugh at that old bloodshot moonIn that burgundy sk...Read Full Lyrics

I stood on the roof, stood till darkTo get a better look at the Fledderjohns' lawnBig sharp pistols, ammo tooNothing but books about World War IIRottweiler, Dobermann, a Pinkerton ...Read Full Lyrics

Bougainvilleas bloom and windBe careful mind the strangle vinesThe rose is climbing over blind'Cause the sun is on the other sideThe bees will find their honeyThe sweetest every ti...Read Full Lyrics