Hoist That Rag

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Awa… more »


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2004
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Well, I learned the trade from Piggy Knowles 
Sing Sing Tommy Shay, boys
God used me as a hammer, boys
To beat his weary drum today 

Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!

Sun is up, the world is flat
Damn good address for a rat
The smell of blood, the drone of flies
You know what to do if the baby cries 

Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag! 

Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag! 

Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag! 

Hoist that rag!

Well, we stick our fingers in the ground
Heave and turn the world around
Smoke is blacking out the sun
At night I pray and clean my gun 

The cracked bell rings and the ghost bird sings 
And the gods go begging here
So just open fire when you hit the shore
All is fair in love and war 

Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!
Hoist that rag!

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Written by: KATHLEEN BRENNAN, THOMAS ALAN WAITS

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