| 1. | Mule Variations | ||
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This album was Tom Waits' 1999 release, and his thirteenth. The songs range from Big in Japan, a smooth but tough rock song, to Come On Up To the House, a powerful telling of a world's troubles. Waits did good again, striking a strange chord with Chocolate Jesus, and tugging your thought strings with Black Market Baby. An excerpt from Mule Variations'-
Get Behind the Mule Punctuated birds on the power line In a Studebaker with the Birdie Joe Joaks I'm diggin' all the way to China With a silver spoon While the hangman fumbles with the noose, boy The hangman fumbles with the noose Got to get behind the Mule In the morning and plow |
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