Hang On St Christopher, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [126]

Welcome back to Song by Song for this, our eleventh season, taking on the 1987 album Franks Wild Years. Sam and Martin begin again with some (brief) discussion of its theatrical context, as well as the strange mechanised wanderlust of this track as compared to previous Waits songs and the early-20th Century work of Woodie Guthrie. 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: Hang On St. Christopher, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits (1987) Hard Travelin', The Asch Recordings vol. 3, Woodie Guthrie (1940s/1999) 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 - Hang On St. Christopher Hang on st. christopher through the smoke  and the oil Buckle down the rumble seat  let the radiator boil got an overhead downshift  and a two dollar grill got an 85 cabin  on an 85 hill Hang on st. christopher on the passenger side open it up, tonight the devil can ride Hang on st. christopher with a barrel house dog kick me up mt. baldy  throw me out in the fog tear a hole in the jack pot  drive a stake through his heart do a 100 on the grapevine  do a jump on the start hang on st. christopher now don't let me go get me to reno and bring it in low, yeah hang on st. christopher with the hammer to the floor put a hi ball in the crank case  nail a crow to the door get a bottle for the jockey gimme a 294 there's a 750 norton bustin' down january's door hang on st. christopher on the passenger side open it up tonight the devil can ride hang on st. christopher now don't let me go get to me reno got to bring it in low put my baby on the flat car  got to burn down the caboose get 'em all jacked up on whiskey  then we'll turn the mad dog loose hang on st. christopher on the passenger side open it up tonight the Devil can ride on yeah