Tom Waits

A while ago I wrote about a CD I bought, called beyond Mississippi: The Blues has left the Town. On this CD a song is recorded of Tom Waits, that I like very much. Its called "Cooking Up A Filipino Box Spring Hog". Its the text that triggered me and the way Tom Waits sings this song. You like it or you don't but if you can listen to it some times, I'm sure you will like it too.

The text is from Tom and his wife Kathleen and goes as follows.

Cooking Up A Fillipino Box Spring Hog

by: Tom Waits

Well I hung on to marys stump

I danced with a soldiers glee

With a rum soaked crook

And a big fat laugh

I spent my last dollar on thee

I saw bill bones, gave him a yell

Kehoe spiked the nog

With a chain link fence

And a scrap iron jaw

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Spider rolled in from

Hollister burn

With a one-eyed stolen mare

Donned himself with chicken fat

Sawin on a jaw bone violin there

Kathleen was sittin down

In little reds recovery room

In her criminal underwear bra

I was naked to the waist

With my fierce black hound

And Im cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road

Fill it with madrone and bay

Stinks like hell

And the neighbors complain

Dont give a hoot what they say

Slap that hog

Gotta roll em over twice

Baste him with a sweeping broom

You gotta swat them flies

And chain up the dogs

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Rattle snake piccata with grapes and figs

Old brown betty with a yellow wig

Taint the mince meat filagree

And it aint the turkey neck stew

And it aint them bruleed

Okra seeds though she

Made them especially for you

Worse won a prize for her

Bottom black pie

The beans got to thrown to the dogs

Jaheseus christ I can always

Make room when theyre

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog