Tom Waits - Alice (Anniversary Edition)

Table Top Joe

I knew one day
One, one, two, one, two, three

Well my mama didn't want me
On the day I was born
I was born without a body
I got nothing but scorn
But I always loved music
All I had was my hands
I dreamed I'd be famous
And I'd work at The Sands

Singing, Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe
Now everyone will know
That I'm Tabletop Joe

I had trouble with the pedals
But I had a strong left hand
And I could play Stravinsky
On a baby grand
I said, 'I'm gonna join the circus
Cause that's where I belong'
So I went to Coney Island
I was singing this song

Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe
Now everyone knows
Yeah I'm Tabletop Joe

They gave me top billing
In the Dreamland show
I had my own orchestra
Starring Tabletop Joe
And the man without a body
Proved everyone wrong
I was rich and I was famous
I was where I belonged, yeah

Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe
Now everyone knows, yeah
Tabletop Joe

Take it home boy



Credits
Writer(s): Kathleen Brennan, Thomas Alan Waits
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Alice
  2. Everything You Can Think
  3. Flowers Grave
  4. No One Knows I'm Gone
  5. Kommienezuspadt
  6. Poor Edward
  7. Table Top Joe
  8. Lost In The Harbour
  9. We're All Mad Here
  10. Watch Her Disappear

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  2. Grave Diggers: Tom Waits
  3. Grave Diggers: Tom Waits - EP
  4. Alice (Anniversary Edition)
  5. Blood Money (Anniversary Edition)
  6. Lost in the Harbour (Live) - Single
  7. Table Top Joe (Live)
  8. God's Away On Business (Live)
  9. All the World Is Green (Live) - Single
  10. Fish And Bird (Live)

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