Tom Waits - Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come Lyrics






jack was sittin poker faced with bullets backed with bitches
neal hunched at the wheel puttin everyone in stiches
braggin bout this nurse he screwed while drivin through nebraska
and when she came she honked the horn and neal just barely missed a
truck and then he asked her if she'd like to come like that to californy
see a red head in a uniform will always get you horny
with her hairnet and those white shoes and a name tag and a hat
she drove like andy granatelli and knew how to fix a flat
and jack was almost at the bottom of his md 2020 neal was yellin
out the window tryin to buy some bennies from a lincoln
full of mexicans whose left rear tire blowed and the sonsobitches
prit near almost ran off the road

well the nurse had spilled the manoshevitz all up and down her dress
then she lit the map on fire neal just had to guess
should we try and find a bootleg route or a fillin station open
the nurse was dumpin out her purse lookin for an envelope and
jack was out of cigarettes we crossed the yellow line
the gas pumps looked like tombstones from here
felt lonelier than a parking lot when the last car pulls away
and the moonlight dressed the double breasted foothills
in the mirror weaving outa negligee and a black brassiere
the mercury was runnin hot and almost out of gas
just then florence nightingale dropped her drawers and
stuck her fat ass half way out of the window with a
wilson pickett tune
and shouted get a load of this and gave the finger to the moon

countin one eyed jacks and whistling dixie in the car
neal was doin least a hundred when we saw a fallin star
florence wished that neal would hold her stead of chewin
his cigar jack was noddin out and dreamin he was in a bar
with charlie parker on the bandstand not a worry in the world
and a glass of beer in one hand and his arm around a girl
and neal was singin to the nurse
underneath a harlem moon
and somehow you could just tell we'd be in california soon





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  1. c.... l....

    ooh. Jack and Neal! who'd have thought? them broken hearted boys, jass a wonderin around.

  2. Z.... R....

    N Jack was almost at them bottem of his M/D 2020!

  3. b.... ....

    The Wilson Pickett reference is an anachronism.

  4. S.... b....

    whats this album omg

  5. M.... J....

    Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy ? So who was Florence Nightingale then ? One of the best Poets and performers I ever saw.

  6. P.... M....

    I wonder how many of 'us' are still above ground, sucking in adulterated air and futilely trying to ameliorate it's poisons by also inhaling one of the Mother's natural remedies.

    P.... M....

    I live near Lake Superior, the air is wonderful.

  7. C.... W....

    A guy writes hundreds of words and then says, "Close your food hole." That's kind of hilarious, really. News flash: an important part of the Youtube experience is coming together in cyberspace to celebrate an artist's work...and few artists' work is more worthy of celebration than Ol Tomcat Waits! Amen Now I'll shut my food hole.

  8. U.... ....

    I dont get that - but yes Tom Waits is awesome !!

  9. a.... ....

    First.
    We all agree that this piece of work kicks ass and Waits is a helluva writer. Nobody cares when you first heard this song, how many of his albums you own or what it reminds you of, we've all got a story to tell, and yours is likely no more interesting than any other's. So sit down, close your food hole and just enjoy.

    a.... ....

    Maybe someday, if you are ever on your way to California, and make a wrong turn, and get lost, and find you are in Ajo, Arizona, at the dimly lit dingy dive bar called the Hut, I'll tell you a story about the time I listened to this song.

    a.... ....

    Thanks guy,....I needed that. Boy, do I have a story. Well, not really.