Burma Shave - Tom Waits

[tjburroughs]

Sorry, couple technical errors in that post. 1st think should be thing and it should be capitalized. You tube is one of the last big sites that doesn't automatically insert punctuation marks like apostraphes or capitalize the 1st letter of a new sentence.

[tjburroughs]

Wow, this was absolutely stunning. it was just so beautiful and haunting; not the 1st think that comes to mind when you hear ukulele. I just think this is amazing, I'm truly blown away.

[oscar989]

Love it, DO you play it in standard tuning?

[waitswatcher]

@oscar989

yes, standard tuning.

[mozzomoreno]

Bravo! I like this

[pparsow]

oh man i have been a tom waits fan for years and that captured the beauty of his music ....great thanks so much!!!!!

[lumpagogo]

Tommy is not the wait

Tommy is less than great

Put horror in the voice

Tommy is last choice

To lead the way

To Burma Shave

[caseyspaos]

@lumpagogo OK, I have seen your bad poetry elsewhere. What are you raving about? Did Tom Waits offend you?

[lumpagogo]

@caseyspaos

You need to lay dead (put away old, silly ideation) and go ahead (think new, helpful thoughts).

Lay dead and go ahead.

[caseyspaos]

@lumpagogo Ah. You are a bot?

[eclipse561]

I want to learn to play this SOOOO HAAAARD

[waitswatcher]

I used the piano score for my arrangement. :-)

[eclipse561]

how? do you have sheet music for it?

[eclipse561]

which is totally my way of saying will you send me a copy?

[waitswatcher]

haha!

you can find the sheet in TOM WAITS ANTHOLOGY songbook.

cheers, ww

[lenny121]

awesome .. and thx for the interview bit under more info

[lumpagogo]

No signs

Bad times

Old days

Give praise

To the greatness which they gave:

The writers of the Burma Shave

[57kristof57]

Soooo inspireid song ,You Yaga subtele musik Watscher thenks 1 kris PL

[guitarslinger44]

AWESOME job man!

[EpifanesEuergetes]

Thanks for the info on the song. It is my favorite Tom Waits song from the albums that predate Swordfishtrombone.

And your rendition is as infinitely sad as the original. Great job, Sir.

[waitswatcher]

glad you like it, thank you.

:-)

[luiglio]

Che meraviglia...

Bravissimo! (sounds as "very very very bravo!"

L.

[lunakarkadam]

Thank you for the story behind the song. It makes it even more powerful and strong.

You play with your gut, it feels that way when I listen.

¡BRAVO!

[waitswatcher]

thank you, nice comment!

ww

[alauclair]

your nothing short of fantastic

[ELGROOVER]

Five minutes of gentle conptempl@ion...it's looking grim over there....wh@ are we to do? : |

[mrusnislava]

Just amazing! I can listen to your playing with hours...you take your audience to a diferent world!

5 stars from me...

[waitswatcher]

thank you very much, ellie!

:-)

ww

[mrusnislava]

You are very welcome :-)

xxx

[notabando]

dude. beyond awesome.

[waitswatcher]

thanks!

ww

[kvetch23]

damn, your stuff is amazing.. so musicaly tight.. a lot of your videos are my favorite tom waits songs, which seem harder to find.. vocals?

[waitswatcher]

thank you!

please check my channel for the latest vids, there are a few TW covers with vocals from vamosbabe.

also, I have one for earth died screaming...

cheers, ww

[kd5txo]

Lovely arrangement. Aloha!

[BradCampbell63]

some nice groove happening...can just see him strutting and prancing...very nice...:)

[bigswifty219]

very nice, but needlessly elaborated at points.

thanks!

[borzas]

GOOOOOD.

[thewhoregalore]

Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Makes me feel sentimental.

[booradleysstuntman]

so nice, ww. i'm still randomly surfing through your backpages, trying to keep catch up with what i've missed on your channel. so don't mind me if i happen to comment on something from way back.

this song was one of the high points on Foreign Affairs imho. you more than breathed new life into it.

[waitswatcher]

thank you, that's cool .. I like comments on older recordings, especially because I'm not so productive lately.

[aosonho]

beautiful!! absolutely amazing!!

thanks for this one and other so good videos! :)

[KrisShred]

Wow, that was a beautiful one! Excellent as ever WW!

.sirK

[waitswatcher]

thank you , Sir K!

[AlliBee]

*sigh* - absolutely lovely.

[waitswatcher]

*double-sigh* :-)