Big Rock Candy Mountain - Tom Waits (IRONWEED)

[piegar]

14 dislikes? this is great stuff!

[brucegray666]

@piegar Yeah, 14 people are obviously morons.

[neatoauctions]

Why the performer of this tune decided to omit some of the original lyrics is unclear. The redacted passage is: “On, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Girls never wear a thing. An’ to your surprise, when you wake up, you’ll find a lipstick ring. The pharmacies’ backdoors don’t lock, and syringes grow on trees. There’s opium goo, and cocaine too; Those things occur in nature, in case yuh didn’t knew, on The Big Rock Candy Mountain.”

[1ivingHe11]

@neatoauctions Huh, probably because it's a song sung by regular people and as such it was "redacted" according to their whim, you moron. Don't you understand anything about American vernacular music? Christ Jesus, you're a pedant.

[zoivanmo]

He is for sure...I m listening him for so many years... God can be wrong abuot this...I can t...ha ha ha :)

[odanak100]

I'm about in the same state of affairs as the Waits character was in this story.

[scitsalcoryp]

This is one of the coolest ', most underrated movies ever made..you did a brilliant job splicing these two sections of vocal together..in the movie it was interrupted by a fight..surely one of the funniest scenes ever in a movie .

You good people out there get ahold of this ..it is a bit sad but has a redemptive roundup of an ending..oh yeah it is great to have a few ( or more ) drinks with..as it is totally imbibed with alcoholism as a theme...

God Bless

[karbonation]

flapjack???

[NeraFX]

@karbonation: That's Candy Island, you goose.

[marginallymental]

dudn't soun' drunk enough.

[wayne73040]

played this and my dog started to howl, hell i started to howl to

[HeadshotsSe7en]

sounds like he was having fun

[HeadshotsSe7en]

sounds like he was having fun

[handymandan100]

HAH! now I know the inspiration for "Cold Water"!

[MermaidCharms]

thats sad..

[LandoftheShanks]

He's not a musical drunk. @m0zc0re is right. he quit that shit back when he got married around 1981. he hasn't smoked or drank in over 20 years...

[zackincarbonite]

I wish I sounded like that when I'm drunk.

[PR13STG0RD0]

Definitely sounds like Waits. He's drunk and joking around, but, as usual, taking the words and the time they were written seriously.

[m0zc0re]

Tom Waits doesn't drink. Not since the very early 80's. He's a vaudevillian.

[lightgoddess117]

that funny as hell!

XD

[joshuagerlach]

Hahaha Tom Waits is so fucking cool

[dmjarrington]

He is the coolest guy. He could take a shit and I would probably buy it.

[apoxalex]

@dmjarrington hell yeah!

[ReverendVader]

For Rudy The Kraut:

"Everyone loves a musical drunk, He's always full of cheer.

Everyone loves a musical drunk 'Cept when he's crying in your beer."

[herdbehaviour]

YES!

effin love him.

[herdbehaviour]

YES.

f-ing love him.

[MissesWaits]

Hat Herr Waits von Martin Kistler geklaut. Sowas.. YEAH!

[simonsayz42069]

hahahahahahahahaha hahahaHAHAHAHAH haha HAHAHAHA

[MooIAmMe]

That's pretty rough, but awesome to listen to, if I do say so myself.

[pigfart]

that is him just drunk as fuck

[kangaroosbraun]

fully agree, both should have won the oscars

[pzwhite]

"The song was used in the 1989 movie Ironweed and sung by Tom Waits." - Wikipedia

[brucegray666]

Thanks for that!

[boogiemister]

that's him for sure,from some movie

[SCLOGSE]

Find Iropnweed and see it. Unbelievable film. Streep, Nichilson, and Tom. Devastating film. I found a region 2 of it on DVD. A classic.