Soldier's Things

Tom Waits

Davenports and kettle drums 
and swallow tail coats 
table cloths and patent leather shoes 
bathing suits and bowling balls 
and clarinets and rings 
and all this radio really 
needs is a fuse 
a tinker, a tailor 
a soldier's things 
his rifle, his boots full of rocks 
and this one is for bravery 
and this one is for me 
and everything's a dollar 
in this box 

Cuff links and hub caps 
trophies and paperbacks 
it's good transportation 
but the brakes aren't so hot 
neck tie and boxing gloves 
this jackknife is rusted 
you can pound that dent out 
on the hood 
a tinker, a tailor 
a soldier's things 
his rifle, his boots full of rocks 
oh and this one is for bravery 
and this one is for me 
and everything's a dollar 
in this box 


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