Big Black Mariah, Big Time, Tom Waits [153]

Our man-on-the-street Eric Molinsky returns to revisit Big Black Mariah, talking about lyric comprehension and the quality of Waits's voice in relation to bed frames and animated characters. 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: Big Black Mariah, Big Time, Tom Waits (1988) 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 - Big Black Mariah I'm cutting through the cane break rattling the sill Thunder that the rain makes when the shadow tops the hill Big light on the back street hill to evermore Packing down the ladder with the hammer to the floor Here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Mariah baby Here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Ford Well I'm all boxed up on a red belle dame Flat Blue Johnny with a blind man's cane A yellow bullet with a rag out in the wind That old blind tiger an old bell Here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Mariah baby Here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Ford Now we're all boxed up on a red belle dame Flat Blue Johnny with a blind man's cane A yellow bullet with a rag out in the wind That old blind tiger an old bell Here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Mariah baby Here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Ford Oh yeah Big Black Mariah here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Mariah Here come the Big Black Mariah