Tom Waits Burma Shave ( Live in Paris, 1979)

Tom Waits performs BurmaShave from the album Foreign Affairs live at Theatre De L Empir in Paris, France on May 06, 1979. Purchase Stream:: Listen To The Full Album: LYRICS Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue Scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town Took the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks And the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through He s a juvenile delinquent never learned how to behave But the cops would never think to look in BurmaShave And the road was like a ribbon and the moon was like a bone He didn t seem to be like any guy she d ever known He kind of looked like Farley Granger with his hair slicked back She says I m a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat How far are you going Said Depends on what you mean He says I m only stopping here to get some gasoline I guess I m going thataway