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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Blow Wind Blow Lyrics

Tom Waits

Marys on the black top
Theres a husband in
The dog house
In the middle of a shakedown
She got
Quiet as a church mouose
She found raleighs on
The dashboard
Sugar daddy caught a polocar
Aint no solitary
Tap dance way down here
I swear is riding
On a field mouse
We were dancin in the slaughterhouse
If you swing along the beltway
Then you skid along the all day
Cause I went a little crazy
And I sat upon a high chair
And Im smokin like a diesel
Way out here
Blow wind blow - blow me away here -
Blow wind blow (repeat)