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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Tom Waits

Good mornin mr. snip snip snip witchur haircut jus as short as mine
Bay rum lucky tiger butch wax cracker jacks shoe shine jaw breaker
Magazine racks hangin round the barber shop a side burnin close crop
Mornin mr. furgeson whats the good word witcha been
Stayin outa trouble like a good boy should I see youre still cuttin hair
Well Im still cuttin classes I just couldnt hep myself
I got a couple of passes to the ringle bros. barn bail circus afternoon
I see you lost a little round the middle and your lookin reel good
Sittin on the wagon stead of under the hood
Whats the low down mr. brown heard you boys leavin town
I just bought myself a struggle buggy suckers powder blue
Throw me over sports page cincinnatis lookin good
Always been for pittsburgh lay you 10 to 1
That the pirates get the pennant and the series for their done
You know the hairs gettin longer and the skirts gettin shorter
You can get a cheaper haircut if you wanna cross the border
Now if your mama saw you smokin why shed kick your ass
Put it out you little juvenile and put it out fast
Oh if I had a million dollars well what would I do
Probly be a barber not a bum like you
Still gotchur paper route now thats just fine
Now you can pay me double cause you gypped me last time
You be keepin little circus money and spend it on a girl
Know I give the best haircuts in the whole wide world