Waits, Tom - Hoist That Rag Lyrics

Tom Waits and Bjork are the two greatest artists we have.

Well, I learned the trade from Piggy Knowles
Sing Sing Tommy Shay, boys
God used me as a hammer, boys
To beat his weary drum today

Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!

Sun is up, the world is flat
Damn good address for a rat
The smell of blood, the drone of flies
You know what to do if the baby cries

Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!

Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!

Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!

Hoist that rag!

Well, we stick our fingers in the ground
Heave and turn the world around
Smoke is blacking out the sun
At night I pray and clean my gun

The cracked bell rings and the ghost bird sings
And the gods go begging here
So just open fire when you hit the shore
All is fair in love and war

Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!

this song might make me relapse after 15 yrs sober

stay strong mate!

"Hoist That Rag" should be designated the new U.S. national anthem.

Much prefer this to the Spotify remastered version

Great song. Love the junkyard feel and what a guitar Solo! Wonderful again from Waits and Robot et al

What if Carlos Santana played the guitars along with Marc Ribot?

Marc Ribot - Amazing

Everytime i hear this makes me wanna punch life in the face!

I can’t believe anybody enjoys this, it’s literally terrible

Disgusting opinion

il piu grande assolo di chitarra di sempre marc ribot nr 1

Di certo non lo si dimentica facilmente.

fantastic break.

Is this the only place to hear the original version now? The remaster is a complete butchering...almost george lucas special edition levels of revision :((((

As much as I love the lyrics, the guitar solo is shocking👌

Damien Lynch it's the whole idea, but it's brilliant

Marc Ribot <3

*This song made that crackhead hooker down the block that have all the STDs that don't kill you, with a beautiful cold sore come to my house*

I love how fucked up sounding this version is. The remastered version pales in comparison.

Why did they replace this with the remastered version on Spotify? Bane of my life

is it me or does the remastered version sounds less good?i'll stick to this one...love it!

Can I anywhere find the instrumental of this song?

the other version is garbage

The gods go begging here. Wonderful.

Edubble- Hoist That Rag. Listen to it!

Tom waits for me but Tomorrow I'll be gone!!

*H O I S T T H A T R A G*

I love tom waits !!! his voice haha , Awesome!
in the belly of a Whale

Hoist that rag Mr Waits!!! You rock!!! I just love this song and Marc Ribots brilliant guitar work. Thank you for posting,NJ xx 👏👏🎼🎶🍀🇮🇪💋💋💋

What's technically really cool to me about this song is that musically, somehow, this is a tango.

BoBu but the song is about pirates right ?

@Andrew Graves I don't know. It doesn't matter much does it? We have metal songs about love and pop songs about suicide. Style doesn't dictate literacy.

BoBu Thats all great...I still feel like it's about pirates 8)

@Andrew Graves Never said it wasn't

BoBu pirates

I'm pretty new to tom waits but this is my favorite song by him, especially that last verse

A useless magic brought me here haha

dat guitar solo is just over 25% of the song. damn, Ribot is good ... Waits let him stretch out w/Cuban music crossed w/NYC downtown noise-punk

When you cant decide if you want to be a blues singer or a metalhead \m/ 🎺

so you become something better than both

This was my first cha cha cha competition song... Got 3rd place with my crush back then... Sentimental memories....

Soooooooo much better than that abomination of a remaster

This is the original version, which is amazing.
They ruined it when they 'remastered' it.

It even made unsuscribe of Spotify because of that...

This is the version. None of that "re-mastered" trash.

My 1B of Tom Waits favorites. 1A is “Step Right Up”. If you haven’t heard it, fine. If you have heard it and still think Tom has a capitalistic political agenda then you are an idiot.

The way the song sounds it reminds me of run to the hills by Iron Maiden

The sound of Fire and Earth... Passion and determination, I so looove this...Hoist that fucking rag!!! Die for what you feel most if necessary!! And that guitar.... SantaMaria!

Only Tom Waits can manage to make a song sound like a dream and a nightmare at the same time. Gotta love him!

üstaddd ne diyosunn

Don't die if the shit hits the fan, that is what i think the sound is about. Paint a good rag/flag.

Tom Waits, American Mastermind!

i just want to roll up my sleeves and get into a bar fight

All is fair in love and war

incredibly, this song is 4:20 long

Coz - 1956-2018

Not a big fan of Tom,but this song👊😍😍 I love that slow, latinobeat! Fly that freakflag, high,brothers and sisters...

BEAUTIFUL TOM ,YOU SING FROM THE SOUL

It’s just rude maaaan

Hoist that God forsaken rag

Cannot express how much Tom Waits' music affects me. Just rediscovered it. Phenomenal

I used to get beat 52 times in pool in a row , with this song on repeat . Classic...

The imperialism on the full display thru untinted eyes of a soldier.
Mr. Waits at his best.

Does he speak only of American soldiers or Israeli soldiers too?

The 'new version' is NOT ok. sorry

you can tell a good person when they piss in a cup. if results disappoint you, you can fuck em' up.

there was a live version of Hoist That Rag on youtube that was absolutely fantastic, I think it's been deleted, does anyone have a copy by chance?

"sun is up, the world is flat, damn good actress for a rat"

A Most Wanted Man ending theme

I've been a Waits man for nearly thirty years enjoying every album he ever made. I've often said once this guy gets into your blood nothing else quite hits the mark. I have long spells of nothing but Tom and eventually manage to tear myself away to go listen to other stuff I have but I always come back.
Hoist that rag is one of the few songs I never liked much.
Just put it on and it blew me away! I'm on my fourth listen.
I'm now going to be up until the early hours listening to those others I might not have been to keen on in the past.
This is brilliant.
I'm hoping he hasn't retired he's been a bit quiet.

Live in Atlanta version of this song is excellent!

a little bit "salsa"

This tune brought the bats outta my attic

His guitar/music is just hypnotic! As usual, I can't "hear" all his lyrics. Need to "Google" this song seems WRONG!

Beautiful. Thanks

Why do Tom Waits and Ugly Cassanova/Modest Mouse go so well togther? Through some Nick Cave in there too

I cannot express how much I love this song.... There are too many emotions and expressions and sounds all happening at once.... it's just pure, raw MAJIC!!! (AND it makes me want to buy a guitar!!)

That's hummmmmmmm mmmm ...Just love it

This song is off the chain!

I'm glad that I learned to speak Tom Waits...

I get a visual of Cabbie in "Escape From NY" driving around listening to this.

Damn good music brought me here.

👌👌👌👌👌👌💆

This is the original version. So much better than the remastered version on Spotify.

This original version is so much better than the remastered one on Spotify. I was so disappointed when I played it there and found out that it had been changed.

Same here... wtf is up with him thinking that the original was inadequate? Completely unnecessary.

exactly

I think both have separate qualities and value. The way Spotify deals with remasters and releases that differ from the original is the problem. I have both and listen to both.

cool song WTF coollllll

Just heard this song from a movie. Love his voice.

When Ribot's solo goes in i feel like i'm on Castro's Cuba

This tune made it rain walleye in rural SE Kansas

My friend showed me this and it’s sick

This is like really dark country

Can anyone tell what tuning and key this song is in?

Is delete 7 años

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” H.L Mencken

I vastly prefer this version to the one they released when they remastered the album.

guitar's the dogs bollox

best feeling i ever heard!

Impressive

i stopped smoking because tom's voice contains enough nicotine already.

Jordan Peterson

Good thing this is on Youtube, since the remastered version of Real Gone is now the only version of the album on Spotify. I really need to get the original 2004 release on vinyl.

Can't believe how good this song is.

"busta rhymes"

I love this version. The remastered isnt as good.

i totally agree. This mix is the one I first heard and loved. I cant do the 2017 remix. Just sounds wrong.

the remastered definitely did well by the guitar as the riff becomes loud and prominent but gooddamn is this track something

Yes!, this is more punk idk is very strong

Absolutely. the new mix is interesting, but definitely inferior to this one. Can't believe they replaced it on all the streaming platforms.

Agreed. Sometimes less is more.

Classic!

People who don't "get" Tom waits will never appreciate his music. He doesn't care if you like his music or if you think he can sing well. That's not the point of Tom waits.

They changed this song on spotify to some remastered version. I like this one better.

Omg my God this song is so bad e dubble did it way better, (rip e dubble)