Well, I pulled on trouble?s braids And I hid in the briars out by the quickmud Staying away from the main roads Passing out wolf tickets, downwind from the bloodhounds
And I pulled on trouble?s braids And I lay by a cypress, as quiet as a stone, ?til the bleeding stopped And I blew the weathervane off some old roadhouse And I built a fire in the skeleton back seat of an old Tucker
And I pulled on trouble?s braids And I spanked cold red mud where the hornet stung deep And I tossed in the ditch in a restless sleep And I pulled on trouble?s braids
I hung my rain-soaked jacket on some old barbed wire Poured cold rusty water on a miserable fire And I pulled on trouble?s braids
And the creek was swollen by daybreak And I could just barely see And I floated downstream on an old dead tree
And I pulled on trouble?s braids I pulled on trouble?s braids I pulled on trouble?s braids
Music & Lyrics by: Tom Waits Official release: ?Swordfishtrombones?, Island Records Inc., © 1983
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