[00:00.000] 作词 : Waits
[00:33.45]Well he came home from the war
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[00:35.74]With a party in his head
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[00:37.84]And modified brougham deville
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[00:41.86]And a pair of legs that opened up
[00:43.92]Like butterfly wings
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[00:45.94]And a mad dog that wouldn't
[00:47.65]Sit still
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[00:49.72]He went and took up with a salvation army
[00:52.52]Band girl
[00:53.55]Played dirty water
[00:54.73]On a swordfishtrombone
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[00:57.69]He went to sleep at the bottom of
[00:59.97]Ten killer lake
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[01:01.79]And he said gee but it's
[01:03.37]Great to be home
[01:04.61]
[01:05.78]Well he came home from the war
[01:07.96]With a party in his head
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[01:10.42]And an idea for a fireworks display
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[01:14.42]And he knew that he'd be ready with
[01:16.44]A stainless steel machete
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[01:18.66]And a half a pint of ballentine's
[01:20.58]Each day
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[01:22.45]And he holed up in a room above a hardware store
[01:26.34]Cryin' nothing there but Hollywood tears
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[01:30.51]And he put a spell on some
[01:32.33]Poor little crutch field girl
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[01:34.77]And stayed like that for 27 years
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[01:38.37]He packed up all his
[01:39.48]Expectations he lit out for California
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[01:42.85]With a flyswatter banjo on his knee
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[01:46.49]With a lucky tiger in his angel hair
[01:49.09]And Benzedrine for getting there
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[01:51.48]Found him in a eucalyptus tree
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[01:54.66]Lieutenant got him a canary bird
[01:57.23]And shaken her head with every word
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[01:59.26]And Chesterfield moonbeams in a song
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[02:02.74]He got 20 years for loving her
[02:04.99]From some Oklahoma governor
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[02:07.23]Said everything this dough boy
[02:08.93]Does is wrong
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[02:10.77]Now some say he's doing
[02:12.03]The obituary mambo
[02:13.51]
[02:15.35]And some say he's hanging on the wall
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[02:18.92]Perhaps this yarn's the only thing
[02:21.35]That holds this man together
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[02:23.47]Some say that he was never here at all
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[02:27.66]Some say they saw him down in
[02:29.39]Birmingham sleeping in a
[02:32.67]Boxcar going by
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[02:35.32]And if you think that you can tell a bigger tale
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[02:39.52]I swear to God you'd have to tell a lie