Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart
I rolled down the national stroll
and with a big fat paycheck
strapped to my hip sack
and a shore leave wristwatch underneath
my sleeve
in a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels
I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank
and I'd left all my papers on the Ticonderoga
and was in a bad need of a shave
and so I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein
and shot billards with a midget
until the rain stopped
and I bought a long sleeved shirt
with horses on the front
and some gum and a lighter and a knife
and a new deck of cards (with girls on the back)
and I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife

and I said Baby, I'm so far away from home
and I miss my Baby so
I can't make it by myself
I love you so

Sing with the song of Tom Waits, Shore Leave lyrics!


Well I was pacing myself
trying to make it all last
squeezing all the life
out of a lousy two day pass
and I had a cold one at the Dragon
with some Filipino floor show
and talked baseball with a lieutenant
over a Singapore sling
and I wondered how the same moon outside
over this Chinatown fair
could look down on Illinois
and find you there
and you know I love you Baby

and I'm so far away from home
and I miss my Baby so
I can't make it by myself
I love you so

Shore Leave...
Shore Leave...

tom waits

Artist Information

Name:	Thomas Alan Waits
Profile:	Born December 7. 1949 in Pomona, California, USA. First album, "Closing Time", released in 1973.
Albums / OSTs:	alice beautiful maladies big time blood money blue valentine bone machine closing time dead man walking fight club foreign affairs franks wild years future soundtrack for america heartattack and vine jarhead keeping the faith mule variations night on earth (soundtrack) nighthawks at the diner one from the heart rain dogs real gone shrek 2 small change swordfishtrombones the black rider the early years vol. 1 the early years vol. 2 the heart of saturday night Click here to view All Albums and Song Lyrics of Tom Waits!