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"Trouble's Braids" lyrics

Tom Waits Lyrics

"Trouble's Braids"

Well I pulled on trouble's braids
And I hid in the briars
Out by the quick mud
Stayin' away from the main roads
Passin' out wolf tickets
Downwind from the bloodhounds
And I pulled on trouble's braids
And I lay by a cypress
As quiet as a stone
Till the bleeding stopped
I blew the weather vane
Off some old roadhouse
I built a fire in the
Skeleton back seat of an old Tucker
And I pulled on trouble's braids
I spanked cold red mud
Where the hornet stung deep
And I tossed in the ditch
In a restless sleep
And I pulled on trouble's braids
I hung my rain-soaked jacket
On some old barbed wire
Poured cold rusty water
On a miserable fire
I pulled on trouble's braids
The creek was swollen by daybreak
And I could just barely see
And I floated downstream
On an old dead tree
And I pulled on trouble's braids
I pulled on trouble's braids
I pulled on trouble's braids
I pulled on trouble's braids


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Writer(s): Thomas Alan Waits
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album: "Swordfishtrombones" (1983)
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones album cover
Underground
Shore Leave
Dave The Butcher
(Instrumental)
Johnsburg, Illinois
16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six
Town With No Cheer
In The Neighborhood
Just Another Sucker on the Vine
(Instrumental)
Frank's Wild Years
Swordfishtrombone
Down, Down, Down
Soldier's Things
Gin Soaked Boy
Trouble's Braids
Rainbirds
(Instrumental)
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