In The Neighbourhood, Swordfishtrombones, Tom Waits [098]

From Mr Rogers, via The Burbs and XTC through to In The Heat Of The Night, Jo, Sam and Martin go through every single diversion possible on this week's episode 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: In The Neighbourhood, Swordfishtrombones, Tom Waits (1983) Bungalow, Nonsuch, XTC (1992) 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 - In The Neighbourhood Well, the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan And the whinin' dog pidgeons by the steeple bell rope And the dogs tipped the garbage pails over last night And there's always construction work bothering you In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood Well, Friday's a funeral and Saturday's a bride And Sey's got a pistol on the register side And the goddam delivery trucks, they make too much noise And we don't get our butter delivered no more In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood Well, Big Mambo's kickin' his old grey hound And the kids can't get ice cream, cause the market burned down And the newspaper sleeping bags blow down the lane And that goddam flatbed's got me pinned in again In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood There's a couple Filipino girls gigglin' by the church And the window is busted and the landlord ain't home And Butch joined the army, yeah, that's where he's been And the jackhammer's digging up the sidewalks again In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood