Don't Wait For Tom-Over The Rhine

[ti:Dont Wait For Tom] [ar:Over The Rhine] [al:The Trumpet Child] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Don't Wait For Tom - Over The Rhine [00:21.33]He's got the hands of a blind piano player [00:23.95] [00:24.83]He's got a feel for the dark like a soothsayer [00:27.89] [00:28.70]He takes a little bow and tips his fedora [00:31.82] [00:32.38]Shouts like he's gonna save Sodom and Gomorrah [00:35.44] [00:36.00]Workin' for the circus X railroad bum [00:39.43]Carnival barker for kingdom dot come [00:42.92]Dusty ol' Gibson opposable thumb [00:45.67] [00:46.48]Bangs out the rhythm on a 50-gallon drum [00:49.47] [00:50.04]Don't wait for Tom [00:51.93] [00:53.49]Tom's long gone he's already moved on [00:56.61]Don't wait for Tom [01:00.23]I saw an ol' '55 Buick just before dawn [01:03.28] [01:04.03]I said Hey hey Tom [01:06.28] [01:07.46]The sun's comin' up you got your wipers on [01:10.21] [01:10.96]Are you tryin' to make it rain again [01:13.33] [01:14.52]Are you tryin' to make it rain again [01:17.07] [01:18.07]Is it rainin' just around your bend [01:20.00] [01:21.56]Are you tryin' to make it rain again [01:23.56] [01:39.91]Sittin' in a corner with his pet muskrat [01:42.22] [01:43.03]Tossin' his cards into an old man's hat [01:46.59]He grins at the girls and they always grin back [01:49.45] [01:50.08]He bets an old waltz he could get 'em in the sack [01:53.70]He makes his own music from the bell of a 'bone [01:57.19]A waitress's falsie and a railroad phone [02:00.19] [02:00.75]Bobs on his knees to an old tarantella [02:03.49] [02:04.18]South of the border he stole it from a fella [02:07.67]Don't wait for Tom [02:09.99] [02:11.24]Tom's long gone he's already moved on [02:14.60]Don't wait for Tom [02:16.79] [02:18.10]I saw an ol' '55 Buick just before dawn [02:21.69]I said Hey hey Tom [02:23.87] [02:25.43]The sun's comin' up you got your wipers on [02:28.62]Are you tryin' to make it rain again [02:31.12] [02:32.36]Are you tryin' to make it rain again [02:34.36] [02:35.98]Is it rainin' just around your bend [02:38.17] [02:39.54]Are you tryin' to make it rain again [02:42.16] [02:43.22]His triple-jointed juke fingers splay like a scarecrow [02:46.84]He kneels down and whistles to a fallen sparrow [02:49.59] [02:50.15]His eyes light up when they wheel in a piano [02:53.70]He reads a dirty joke out of an old Baptist hymnal [02:56.82] [02:57.38]He wears a tuxedo made of sackcloth and ashes [03:00.63]Has a tattoo of a girl who can bat her eyelashes [03:04.06]Down on the river he was fishin' with a sword [03:07.93]He knocked off John the Baptist for a word from the Lord [03:11.49]He takes his coffee with the blood of a turnip [03:14.50] [03:15.07]Blushes his cheeks with an Amsterdam tulip [03:18.93]Choppin' up a rooster for a pullet surprise [03:21.37] [03:21.92]If the gravy don't getcha he'll getcha with his eyes [03:25.67]Don't wait [03:26.58] [03:32.69]Hey Tom [03:33.19] [03:36.62]Sun's comin' up you got your wipers on