Jitterbug Boy Lyrics - Small Change - Tom Waits

Well, I'm a jitterbug boy 

by the shoe-shine 

resting on my laurels 

and my Hardys too 

life of Riley on a swing shift 

gears follow my drift 

Once upon a time I was 

in show-biz too 

I seen the Brooklyn Dodgers 

playin at Ebbets Field 

seen the Kentucky Derby too 

it's fast women, slow horses, I'm reliable sources 

and I'm holding up a lamp post 

if you want to know 

I seen the Wabash Cannonball, 

buddy, I've done it all 

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beause 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 

Photos 

and so you ask me 

what I'm doing here 

holding up a lamp post 

flippin this quarter, 

trying to make up my mind 

and if it's heads I'll go to 

Tennessee, and tails I'll buy a drink 

if it lands on the edge 

I'll keep talking to you