Referring to: 'Nice Work If You Can Get It'. a youth who prepares and dispenses refreshments at a soda fountain (Source: Dictionary Of American Slang, Wentworth/ Flexner) Closest Montgomery Avenue seems to be in Cardiff By The Sea? (near Encinitas) And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue: There doesn't seem to be a Montgomery Avenue in San Diego (where young Tom Waits would get off work). ' (Source: 'KBCO Interview With Tom Waits' KBCO-C studios Los Angeles (USA), by Bret Saunders. this is for all the restaurant workers out there in the world. It was next to a mortuary and there were a lot of jokes about the food. Tom Waits (introducing I Can't Wait To Get Off Work, 1999): ' I worked at a Pizza place when I was a kid. Official release: Small Change, Elektra/ Asylum Records, 1976 If I hurry, I just might get off before the dawn's early light She'll be waiting up with a magazine for me I can't wait to get off work and see my baby Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine Oh, your loving is a rare and a copacetic (6) giftĪnd I'm a moonlight watchmanic, it's hard to be romantic 'Count the cash, clean the oven, dump the trash'

Well, 'Tom, do this' and 'Tom, do that' and 'Tom, don't do that' She said she'd leave the porch light on for meīut this job sweeping up here is gainfully employing me tonight It's nice work if you can get it (3), now who the hell said it?īut the work never stops, and I'll be busting my chops (4)Īnd I can't wait to get off work and see my baby I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerk (2) I don't mind working, cause I used to be jerking off (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue) (1) And you say, 'Oh, we'll use that.' (Source: 'The Man Who Howled Wolf '. You're writing a song and you need a town, and you look out the window and you see 'St. Every song needs to be anatomically correct: You need weather, you need the name of the town, something to eat - every song needs certain ingredients to be balanced. Ever live there? TW: ' No, never lived there. Louis seems to pop up a lot, in 'Hold on' from the new record and 'Time' from Rain Dogs and you've mentioned it a lot in interviews. Jonathan Valania (1999): Getting back to the names of places, St. Louis, on the Kansas City Line.', Hold On, 1999: ' Well, God bless your crooked heart, St. Also mentioned in: Time, 1985: ' And you're East of East Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches.', Train Song, 1987: ' Well I broke down in East St. James Place, North Carolina Avenue, Tennessee Avenue, Pacific Avenue, New York Avenue, Marvin Gardens, Ventnor Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Illinois Avenue, Indiana Avenue, Kentucky Avenue. Charles Place, Park Place, States Avenue, Virginia Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, St. Standard (American Edition) property names are: Mediterranean Avenue, Baltic Avenue, Oriental Avenue, Vermont Avenue, Connecticut Avenue, Boardwalk, St. Boardwalk and Park Palace and hotels are the most valuable pieces of property on the Monopoly board. The Parker Brothers standard US version (based on Atlantic City) of the game has been produced since 1935.

There are different international editions.

(2) I'd give you Boardwalk and Park Place and all of my hotels: refers to American board game Monopoly. The object of the game is to become the wealthiest player through buying, renting and selling property. I've always had a real fascination with Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer and those people.' (Source: 'The Marlowe Of The Ivories'. In fact there's a quote from 'Sophisticated Lady' in that song. (1) Tom Waits (1985): ' Your musical diet determines a lot of what comes out of you, and I was listening to Ellington at the time of 'I Beg Your Pardon'. Sony/ Columbia Recordsīangin' On The Table With An Old Tin Cup. (Columbia), 1982Īrrangements and lyrics published in ' Tom Waits - Anthology' (Amsco Publications, 1988/ Nuova Carisch, 2000)įrom There To Here. Official release: One From The Heart, Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

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