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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(gypsy)
(tom waits)
When I was a boy, the moon was a pearl the sun a yellow gold.
But when I was a man, the wind blew cold the hills were upside down.
But now that I have gone from here theres no place Id rather be
Than to float my chances on the tide back in the good old world.
On octobers last Ill fly back home rolling down winding way.
Scare crows are all dressed in rags out at the edge of the field I lay
And all Ive gots a pocket full of flowers on my grave.
Oh but summer is gone I remember it best
Back in the good old world.