Cooking with Tom Waits

Tina: yeah i often cook with tom on in the kitchen so this was just natural
but he better not start banging on my saucepans!!
Rittmo: Piano by TwH "no sore throat Tina, just my waking up "voice after years and years of self abuse" and that's a Tom Waits quote :)


Lyrics:
The sailor's on the skids
with the butter in his pocket
& the hooker's up from Harlem
with the treacle in a locket,
& the flours in the limo
with the alligator shoes
& Fred Astaire left ginger
when they got the bad reviews,
with a switchblade & the bicarb
& a picture of St Paul
the Cubans got my sugar
cooking Spanish down the hall,
& theres a queue for tables
at the Pearly Gates
so the Devils got his oven on
& he's ordering more plates,
& the eggs are getting beaten
by the Mob on 52nd
but thats another recipe
for another day I reckon,
& the night wears a black pinney
with stars embroidered on the hem
& the judge is in the kitchen
making ginger bread men,
“little man you didnt sing
& the mobsters werent sent down
Im gonna give you 15 minutes
in the hottest jail in town!”
© tina marshall 2012