Jitterbug Boy lyrics

Song information

Artist: Tom Waits
Album: Small Change

Lyrics

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

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

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