Tom Trauberts Blues — текст песни (Tom Waits)

Wasted and wounded, it aint what the moon did, Ive got what I paid for now

See you tomorrow, hey frank, can I borrow a couple of bucks from you

To go waltzing mathilda, waltzing mathilda,

Youll go waltzing mathilda with me



Im an innocent victim of a blinded alley

And Im tired of all these soldiers here

No one speaks english, and everythings broken, and my stacys are soaking wet

To go waltzing mathilda, waltzing mathilda,

Youll go waltzing mathilda with me



Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cabs parking

A lot they can do for me

I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open,

And Im down on my knees tonight

Old bushmills I staggered, youd bury the dagger

In your silhouette window light go

To go waltzing mathilda, waltzing mathilda,

Youll go waltzing mathilda with me



Now I lost my saint christopher now that Ive kissed her

And the one-armed bandit knows

And the maverick chinamen, and the cold-blooded signs,

And the girls down by the strip-tease shows, go

Waltzing mathilda, waltzing mathilda,

Youll go waltzing mathilda with me



No, I dont want your sympathy, the fugitives say

That the streets arent for dreaming now

And manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories,

They want a piece of the action anyhow

Go waltzing mathilda, waltzing mathilda,

Youll go waltzing mathilda with me



And you can ask any sailor, and the keys from the jailor,

And the old men in wheelchairs know

And mathildas the defendant, she killed about a hundred,

And she follows wherever you may go

Waltzing mathilda, waltzing mathilda,

Youll go waltzing mathilda with me



And its a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace,

And a wound that will never heal

No prima donna, the perfume is on an

Old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey

And goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers

And goodnight to mathilda, too