Jitterbug Boy
Tom Waits * Track #3 On Small Change
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Album Small Change
- #1Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
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- #2Step Right Up
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- #3Jitterbug Boy
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- #4I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward)
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- #5The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)
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- #6Invitation to the Blues
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- #7Pasties and a G-String
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- #8Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
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- #9The One that Got Away
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- #10Small Change
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- #11I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work
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Jitterbug Boy by Tom Waits
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Tom WaitsProduced by
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Tom WaitsAbout
A man drunkenly leaning on a lamp post tells a series of increasingly improbable stories about his life. Given the album’s common theme of drunks whose lives haven’t worked out, perhaps the man is lonely and is weaving these tales in the hopes that whoever he’s talking to will be interested enough t...
Jitterbug Boy Lyrics
Well, I'm a jitterbug boy by the shoeshine
Resting on my laurels and my Hardy's too
Life of Riley on the swing shift, girls follow my drift
Once upon a time I was in showbiz too
I seen the Brooklyn Dodgers playin' at Ebbets Field
Seen the Kentucky Derby too
It's fast women, slow horses, unreliable sources
And I'm holding up a lamppost, if you wanna know
I seen the Wabash Cannonball, buddy, I've done it all
Because I slept with the lions and Marilyn Monroe
Had breakfast in the eye of a hurricane
Fought Rocky Marciano, played Minnesota Fats
Burned hundred dollar bills, I eaten Mulligan stew
Got drunk with Louis Armstrong, what's that old song?
I taught Mickey Mantle everything that he knows
So you'll ask me what I'm doin' here holdin' up a lamppost
Flippin' this quarter, tryin' to make up my mind
If it's heads, I'll go to Tennessee, tails, I'll buy a drink
If it lands on the edge, I'll keep talkin' to you
Jitterbug Boy Q&A
Who wrote Jitterbug Boy's ?
Jitterbug Boy was written by Tom Waits.
Who produced Jitterbug Boy's ?
Jitterbug Boy was produced by Bones Howe.
When did Tom Waits release Jitterbug Boy?
Tom Waits released Jitterbug Boy on Tue Sep 21 1976.