I generally can remember pretty much all of a book I’ve read after reading the first few sentences… but that’s one of the few that doesn’t work on. Read through it in high school, when I was devouring the sci-fi/fantasy section of the school library.
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Sane sane they’re all insane
Fireman’s blind the conductor’s lame
A Cincinnati jacket and a sad-luck dame
Hang out the window with a bottle full of rain
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Imitation Tom Waits?
If so, veddy nice!
(And btw, who IS Tom waiting for?)
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No it’s actual Tom Waits, the second verse of Clap Hands, the first verse of which quotes the The Clapping Song to which ChuckV was referring.
(and I assume Tom waits for no man.)
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The 3,6,9 bit is one I’ve had stuck in my brain since my early days. I know I heard it on the radio, as opposed to the playground, but I was fairly certain I didn’t hear the Shirley Ellis original. According to wiki, I probably heard a Pia Zadora cover!
She should work with Waits. It’s not too late!
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“fifty dollar bill in a Paladin’s hat…”
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Oh thanks, I’ll listen to it again soon. While stirring some brandy with a nail. 
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Clap Hands is one of my favorite Tom Waits (The Irish Anti-Tenor) songs.
Said roar, roar
The thunder and the roar
Sumbitch is never comin’ back here no more
The Moon in the window
and a bird on the pole
Can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal
I said steam, steam
A hundred bad dreams
Goin’ up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
A fifty dollar bill inside a Paladin’s hat
and nobody’s sure where Mr Knickerbocker’s at
Shine, shine
A Roosevelt dime
All the way to Baltimore
You’re runnin’ outta time
Salvation Army seem to wind up in the hole
They all went to heaven in a little rowboat
I used to make lyrics-and-pictures posts on stumbleupon, and did this one. Remember finding magnificent B&W images - men shovelling coal into massive furnaces, a Coffin-Nosed Cord in Harlem surrounded by youthful admirers, a haunting pic of the Moon in a window, and a lovely late Victorian photograph of two sisters and a girl friend out on a lake in a little rowboat.
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XD
Will also post on the food thread
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Here’s my favorite comment, and Ólafur’s reply
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This is what you get when you release Big Mouth Billy Bass back into the wild.
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