Swordfishtrombone

	作词 : Waits
	Well he came home from the war
	with a party in his head
	and modified Brougham DeVille
	and a pair of legs that opened up
	like butterfly wings
	and a mad dog that wouldn't
	sit still
	he went and took up with a Salvation Army
	Band girl
	who played dirty water
	on a swordfishtrombone
	he went to sleep at the bottom of
	Tenkiller lake
	and he said "gee, but it's
	great to be home."

	Well he came home from the war
	with a party in his head
	and an idea for a fireworks display
	and he knew that he'd be ready with
	a stainless steel machete
	and a half a pint of Ballentine's
	each day
	and he holed up in room above a hardware store
	cryin' nothing there but Hollywood tears
	and he put a spell on some
	poor little Crutchfield girl
	and stayed like that for 27 years


	Well he packed up all his
	expectations he lit out for California
	with a flyswatter banjo on his knee
	with a lucky tiger in his angel hair
	and benzedrine for getting there
	they found him in a eucalyptus tree
	lieutenant got him a canary bird
	and shaked her head with every word
	and Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song
	and he got 20 years for lovin' her
	from some Oklahoma governor
	said everything this Doughboy
	does is wrong

	Now some say he's doing
	the obituary mambo
	and some say he's hanging on the wall
	perhaps this yarn's the only thing
	that holds this man together
	some say he was never here at all

	Some say they saw him down in
	Birmingham, sleeping in a
	boxcar going by
	and if you think that you can tell a bigger tale
	I swear to God you'd have to tell a lie...

	zuò cí : Waits
	Well he came home from the war
	with a party in his head
	and modified Brougham DeVille
	and a pair of legs that opened up
	like butterfly wings
	and a mad dog that wouldn' t
	sit still
	he went and took up with a Salvation Army
	Band girl
	who played dirty water
	on a swordfishtrombone
	he went to sleep at the bottom of
	Tenkiller lake
	and he said " gee, but it' s
	great to be home."

	Well he came home from the war
	with a party in his head
	and an idea for a fireworks display
	and he knew that he' d be ready with
	a stainless steel machete
	and a half a pint of Ballentine' s
	each day
	and he holed up in room above a hardware store
	cryin' nothing there but Hollywood tears
	and he put a spell on some
	poor little Crutchfield girl
	and stayed like that for 27 years


	Well he packed up all his
	expectations he lit out for California
	with a flyswatter banjo on his knee
	with a lucky tiger in his angel hair
	and benzedrine for getting there
	they found him in a eucalyptus tree
	lieutenant got him a canary bird
	and shaked her head with every word
	and Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song
	and he got 20 years for lovin' her
	from some Oklahoma governor
	said everything this Doughboy
	does is wrong

	Now some say he' s doing
	the obituary mambo
	and some say he' s hanging on the wall
	perhaps this yarn' s the only thing
	that holds this man together
	some say he was never here at all

	Some say they saw him down in
	Birmingham, sleeping in a
	boxcar going by
	and if you think that you can tell a bigger tale
	I swear to God you' d have to tell a lie...