A Sight For Sore Eyes, Foreign Affairs, Tom Waits [051]

With some disagreement and friction, Martin and Sam discuss some of the musical borrowings and stylistic repetitions in this track from Foreign Affairs. Debating cliche, originality and their place in pop music, as well as Mary Hopkins’s contribution to the theme in a very similar track, Song by Song returns for another discussion on Tom Waits. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order. website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: [email protected] Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Foreign Affairs, Tom Waits (1977) Those Were The Days, Single, Mary Hopkin (1968) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly. Lyrics - A Sight for Sore Eyes A sight for sore eyes it's a long time no see Working hard hardly working hey man you know me Water under the bridge did you see my new car Well it's bought and it's paid for parked outside of the bar And hey barkeep what's keeping you keep pouring drinks For all these palookas hey you know what I thinks That we toast to the old days and DiMaggio too And old Drysdale and Mantle Whitey Ford and to you Oh you know the old gang ain't around everyone has left town Except for Thumm and Giardina said they just might be down Oh half drunk all the time and I'm all drunk the rest Yeah Monk's still the champion oh but I am the best And hey barkeep what's keeping you keep pouring drinks For all these palookas hey you know what I thinks That we toast to the old days and DiMaggio too And old Drysdale and Mantle Whitey Ford and to you Guess you heard about Nash he was killed in a crash Oh that must have been two or three years ago now Yeah he spun out and he rolled he hit a telephone pole And he died with the radio on No she's married with a kid finally split up with Sid He's up north for a nickel's worth for armed robbery And I'll play you some pinball no you ain't got a chance Then go on over and ask her to dance And hey barkeep what's keeping you keep pouring drinks For all these palookas hey you know what I thinks That we toast to the old days and DiMaggio too And Drysdale and Mantle Whitey Ford and to you