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[curtaincalled]

i recently got hooked on this band called Over the Rhine. i highly recommend checking them out; they're very versatile and i haven't heard a song of theirs yet that i didn't like.

i found out about them through a tom waits blog called the eyeball kid. they have a song on their latest album about the man himself:

He’s got the hands of a blind piano player
He’s got a feel for the dark like a soothsayer
He takes a little bow and tips his fedora
Shouts like he’s gonna save Sodom and Gomorrah

Workin’ for the circus X railroad bum
Carnival barker for kingdom dot come
Dusty old Gibson, opposable thumb
Bangs out the rhythm on a 50 gallon drum

Don’t wait for Tom
Tom’s long gone he’s already moved on...

Sittin’ in a corner with his pet muskrat
Tossin’ his cards into an old man’s hat
He grins at the girls and they always grin back
He bets an old waltz he could get ’em in the sack

He wears a tuxedo made of sackcloth and ashes
Has a tattoo of a girl who can bat her eyelashes
Down on the river he was fishin’ with a sword
He knocked off John the Baptist for a word from the Lord

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