"Table Top Joe" from Alice (Remastered) by Tom Waits

Tom Waits - Alice (Remastered) Table Top Joe

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Tracks on this album

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
11.Reeperbahn
12.I'm Still Here
13.Fish And Bird
14.Barcarolle
15.Fawn

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ISRC:USEP41718129
Recorded:2002
©2017 Anti

Lyrics

Well, my Mama didn't want me
On the day I was born

Born without a body
I got nothin' but scorn
But I always loved music
All I had was my hands
And I dreamed I'd be famous
And I'd work at The Sands

Tabletop Joe Tabletop Joe
Everyone knows 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
And I went to Coney Island
Singing this song

Tabletop Joe Tabletop Joe
Everyone knows Tabletop Joe

And 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
And I was where I belonged

Singing Tabletop Joe
Tabletop Joe
Everyone knows Tabletop Joe