I Can't Wait To Get Off Work, Small Change, Tom Waits [046]

Concluding our shuffle through Tom Waits’s Small Change, Sam, Callum and Martin struggle to wrap up their duties and get back to their respective avenues. This final track’s relationship to the album as a whole, backstage vs. onstage personas, and the concept of work in opposition to art all help us wrap up our fourth season of Song by Song. 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: I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue), Small Change, Tom Waits (1976) Frankly, Mr. Shankly, The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths (1986) 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 - I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) Well I don't mind working cause I used to be jerking off Most of my time in the the bars I been a cabby and a stock clerk and a soda fountain jock jerk and a manic mechanic on cars it's nice work if you can get it now who the hell said it I got money to spend on my girl but the work never stops and I'll be busting my chops Working for Joe & Sal and I can't wait to get off work and see my baby she said she'd leave the porch lite on for me I'm disheveled I'm disdainful I'm distracted and it's painful but this job sweeping up here is gainfully employing me tonight Tom do this Tom do that Tom don't do that count the cash clean the oven dump the trash oh your lovin is a rare and a copasetic gift I'm a moonlight watchmanic it's hard to be romantic (sweeping up over by the cigarette machine sweeping up over by the cigarette machine) and can't wait to get off work and see my baby she'll be waiting up with a magazine for me clean the bathrooms, clean um good oh you're lovin I wish you would come down here and sweepameoffmyfeet this broom'll have to be my baby if I hurry I just might get off before the dawns early light