Tom Waits - "Get Behind The Mule"
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"Get Behind The Mule" by Tom Waits from the album 'Mule Variations'
Lyrics
Molly be damned smote Jimmy the Harp
With a horrid little pistol and a lariat
she's goin to the bottom
and she's goin down the drain
Said she wasn't big enough to carry it
She got to get behind the Mule
in the morning and plow
She got to get behind the Mule
in the morning and plow
She got to get behind the Mule
in the morning and plow
She got to get behind the Mule
in the morning and plow
Choppity chop goes the axe in the woods
You gotta meet me by the fall down tree
Shovel of dirt upon a coffin lid
and I know they'll come lookin for me boys
and I know they'll come a-lookin for me
Got to get behind the Mule
in the morning and plow
Got to get behind the Mule
in the morning and plow
Got to get behind the Mule
in the morning and plow
Got to get behind the Mule
in the morning and plow
Big Jack Earl was 8'1'
He stood in the road and he cried
He couldn't make her love him
Couldn't make her stay
but tell the good Lord that he tried
(Chorus)
Dusty trail from Atchison to Placerville
On the wreck of the Weaverville stage
Beaula fired on Beatty for a lemonade
I was stirring my brandy with a nail boys
Stirring my brandy with a nail
(Chorus)
Well the rampaging sons of the widow James
Jack the cutter and the pock marked kid
Had to stand naked at the bottom
Of the cross
And tell the good lord what they did
Tell the good lord what they did
(Chorus)
Punctuated birds on the power line
In a Studebaker with the Birdie Joe Hoaks
I'm diggin all the way to China
With a silver spoon
While the hangman fumbles with the noose, boys
The hangman fumbles with the noose
(Chorus)
Pin your ear to the wisdom post
Pin your eye to the line
Never let the weeds get higher
than the garden
Always keep a sapphire in your mind
Always keep a diamond in your mind
(Chorus)
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It takes hard work to live in this crazy world. Sometimes you lose a grip on your own sanity. You got to get behind the mule in the morning and plow.
I feel like I’ve just stumbled upon a genre of music I’ve literally never heard before. It’s like, black...acid...country.
It reminds me of how sometimes you need to take in something bitter after eating too many sweet or rich foods. This is like that for my ears. I’m kinda diggin it 👌🏻
❣❗👏🤝👏
Welcome
Lpp
This is how I'm gonna pitch Tom Waits to new people from now on.
tyty
@@Povoleit does fit in a way with words people know.
I've known this song for decades via Government Mule / Warren Haynes cover. Never realized it was a Waits song.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM !
71 BIG ONES.
Heck Toms same age as me.....not good I thought he was older
This is my driving to work song.
Its like "acid gospel". Something like William Faulkner or Flanny O'Conner's characters would sing to themselves as they walk thru their Southern Gothic lives. Tom Waits is a genius! Keep pulling on Troubles Braids, Tom.
You gotta get behind the mule and plough - you have to get up early and work with what you have. Hardass work/survival creed Brilliant song.
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RAW and TRUE !
Great product ❣👍🔺️
I feel this every god damned day
The final part is unreal
Bout to bury another friend. We dont seem to make it much past 40. Our group.
Freedom is a mythical creature
Huh...so here's where I earn a nerd card.
Deep rock galactic...it's a game about asteroid mining dwarves with guns in space.
They got a robot mule to haul the loot.
It's called, among other things, Molly.
Tom is one of a kind, thank a chocolate Jesus's.❤❤❤❤
Groovy. ☠
Big Jack Earle was a real big guy. Molly B'Damned was real too, from Ireland to Idaho. The James Brothers sure were real folks too. Birdie Jo Hoaks' story is as weird as they come. Tom likes to eulogize weird folks like us. And KooKoo the Bird Girl, as well.
If you are interested in where this song fits: it follows Dylan singing “Jewels and binoculars hang from the mule but these visions of Johanna make it all seem so cruel”
After Tom song Jack takes the floor (Rambling Jack Elliott) singing muleskinner blues. Then the waterboys singing “The whole of the moon”
I like the way you think. The only quibble that I might raise would be to have a different Waterboys song. I would pick "A Bang On The Ear", a song on my personal ongoing playlist. I do appreciate you're posting this comment though, thanks. Peace 💚 (For context, I had my world turned upside down two and a half years ago, losing my daughter, father, and wife in a 15 month stretch, not trying to be anyone special, just decided being socially polite doesn't work for me these days.) Peace 💚
riickenbacker vocals
That's such a good way of putting it wow
BOY/JUNG!
Sew idk... Barnes n Cornhollis, krunk drow kirksdine exchange sketcha boom Lyle...
You need to listen to Karise Eden singing this song
This is absolutely vital data for future artificial intelligence evolution. More human than human. Z --oSo-- was here.
this feels like it would fit right in in cowboy bebop
Yea or Firefly
There is a track on Cowboy Bebop's OST that interpolates a Tom Waits track. Compare Midtown with Bad Dog No Biscuits
This should've been in red dead redemption 2 🤠🤡🤡🤡
Ghost of Gravois alley 🐐z Mercy chop shop one of two safety pins at large and down a short man period culdasack demand counter cultural literature smoke more wear kilts made of tin foil crimped well well is this my home ec room?
But he sound like Bob Dylan right? Lmfao
Nope. He does not.
@@projectblack2462that's what I mean how do people think so with songs like this
Welcome to an entire genre. Explore it. The goods. RW Burnside too.