Thomas Alan Waits(born December 7, 1949 in Pomona, California) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 70s as a singer in dirty bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation (poets like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs) He could not make a living from his music although he was well accepted by the critics. The people at that time didn't like his classical bar music, pre-rock and americanastyles reminiscent of musical genres of the 50s and 40s, such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville.
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find Lyrics

Tom Waits

Well I always play Russian roulette in my head
Seventeen black or twenty-nine red
How far from the gutter, how far from the pew
I will always remember to forget about you
A good man is hard to find
Only strangers sleep in my bed
And my favorite words are 'good-bye'
And my favorite color is red
A long dead soldier looks out from the frame
No one remembers his war, no one remembers his name
Go out to the meadow, scare off all the crows
It does nothing but rain here and nothing will grow
A good man is hard to find
Only strangers sleep in my bed
And my favorite words are 'good-bye'
And my favorite color is...
My favorite color is...
My favorite color is red