Downtown, Heartattack and Vine, Tom Waits [071]

Martin and Sam welcome Sarah Cook to the show, as Waits returns to the street life he loves (or despises?) so well. As the song explores the geography as well as the politics of the city's downtown in the 1980s, we also look at some alternate interpretations of this location, as well as Petula Clark's influence on resource-management games. 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: Downtown, Heartattack And Vine, Tom Waits (1980) Downtown, Petula Clark, The Best of Petula Clark (1996/1964) 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 - Downtown Red Pants and the Sugarman in the Temple Street gloom drinkin chivas regal in a four dollar room just another dead soldier in a powder blue light Sugarman says baby everythings alright goin downtown down downtown goin down downtown Montclaire de Havelin doin the St. Vitus dance lookin for someone to chop the lumber in his pants how am I gonna unload all of this ice and all this mink all the traffic in the street but it's so hard to think goin downtown down downtown goin down downtown Frankie's wearin lipstick le cardin I swear to god I seen him holdin hands with Jimmy Bond Sally's high on crank and hungry for some sweets fem in the sheets but she's butch in the streets goin downtown down downtown goin down downtown it's the cool of the evening the sun's goin down I want to hold you in my arms I want to push you around I wanna break your bottle and spill out all your charms come on baby we'll set off all the burglar alarms goin downtown down downtown goin down downtown Red Pants and the Sugarman in the Temple Street gloom are drinkin chivas regal in a four dollar room just another dead soldier in a powder blue night Red Pants says to Sugarman said everything's alright goin downtown down downtown goin down downtown