Trouble's Braids Lyrics - Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits

Well I pulled on trouble's braids 

and I hid in the briars 

out by the quick mud 

stayin' away from the main roads 

passin' out wolf tickets 

downwind from the blood hounds 

and I pulled on trouble's braids 

and I lay by a cypress 

as quiet as a stone 

'til the bleeding stopped 

I blew the weather vane 

off some old road house 

I build a fire in the 

skeleton back seat of an old Tucker 

and I pulled on trouble's braids 

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I spanked cold red mud 

where the hornet stung deep 

and I tossed in the ditch 

in a restless sleep 

and I pulled on trouble's braids 

I hung my rain-soaked jacket 

on some old barbed wire 

poured cold rusty water 

on a miserable fire 

I pulled on trouble's braids 

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the creek was swollen by daybreak and I could just 

barely see 

and I floated downstream 

on an old dead tree 

and I pulled on trouble's braids 

I pulled on trouble's braids 

I pulled on trouble's braids 

I pulled on trouble's braids