[FORMERLY] Gun Street Girl - TOM WAITS [ BLOCKED - COPYRIGHT CLAIM]

(Audio Swamp - Replacement Track after 5,643 views & 2**rating - Original audio muted at upload):

~ Black Coffy ~

artist: Halfway To Gone

album: Second Season

label: Small Stone Records

genre: Blues

I dedicate this to Tom Waits and The Island Def Jam Music Group and to all the other bleeding heart copyright mingers. UMG, I thought you were better than this or is this down to Mr. Waits? I'll send him a tin of beans if he's th@ hard up. Your foot will never heal up if you keep shooting it!!
A missed opportunity for people to hear (and then buy) your music, given instead to "Halfway to Gone".

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[Formally] Track 13. 'Gun Street Girl'. From the album 'Rain Dogs'

Written, Produced and Arranged by Tom Waits

Tom Waits - Vocals, Banjo
Michael Blair - Percussion
Greg Cohen - Double Bass

Engineered and Mixed by Robert Musso

♪♫ Falling James in the Tahoe mud
Stick around to tell us all the tale
Well he fell in love with a Gun Street girl
And now he's dancing in the Birmingham jail
Dancing in the Birmingham jail


He took a hundred dollars off a slaughterhouse Joe
Brought a brand new Michigan twenty-gauge
He got all liquored up on that road house corn
Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette
A hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette


He bought a second-hand Nova from a Cuban Chinese
And dyed his hair in the bathroom of a Texaco
With a pawnshop radio, quarter past four
He left for Waukegan at the slamming of the door
Left for Waukegan at the slamming of the door


I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home
I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home


He's sitting in a sycamore in St. John's wood
Soaking day-old bread in kerosene
Well he was blue as a robin's egg and brown as a hog
He's staying out of circulation 'til the dogs get tired
Out of circulation 'til the dogs get tired


Shadow fixed the toilet with an old trombone
He never get up in the morning on a Saturday
Sitting by the Erie with a bull-whipped dog
Telling everyone he saw, They went that-a-way, boys
Telling everyone he saw, They went that-a-way


Now the rain's like gravel on an old tin roof
And the Burlington Northern pulling out of the world
Now a head full of bourbon and a dream in the straw
And a Gun Street girl was the cause of it all
A Gun Street girl was the cause of it all


Well he's riding in the shadow by the St. Joe ridge
Hearing the click-clack tapping of a blind man's cane
He was pulling into Baker on a New Year's Eve
One eye on a pistol and the other on the door
One eye on a pistol and the other on the door


Miss Charlotte took her satchel down to King Fish Row
Smuggled in a brand new pair of alligator shoes
With her fireman's raincoat and her long yellow hair
Well they tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire
They tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire


I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home
I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home


Banging on the table with an old tin cup
Sing I'll never kiss a Gun Street girl again
Never kiss a Gun Street girl again
I'll never kiss a Gun Street girl again


I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home
I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home ♪♫

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[flyingsuperpetis]

It'd be one thing if you actually put some effort into making a video that went along with the audio, and did something remotely artistic, but simply uploading cd tracks to youtube without any video at all is just giving away an artists music for the sake of doing it. & do we really need 18 people to upload an identical audio track? Good riddance to bad clutter.

[ELGROOVER]

To flyingsuperpetis ~ hold up geezer, I've made over sixty vids. No one wants to spend time making a vid they know will likely disappear in a couple of weeks, as often happens with particular artists...such as Waits.

Why people upload identical tracks, I don't know? (I guess many just don't bother to search whats up already properly). Two years ago there was no posting of this track, and I'm glad I didn't waste my time making a vid for this one as it was blocked instantly on upload ;-j

[adammakessongs]

this definitely wasn't gun street girl.. but it was sweet

[joelaery]

Thanks for trying anyways....Great song!!!

[ELGROOVER]

to JAF30 ~ ...because of what I read of him in interview, in his own words.... regarding his attitude to copyright.

In real life, as opposed to what is portrayed in the msm, corporations are largely unaccountable ; take a look at....

/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y

...and the rest of that documentary, if it interests you.

I'm not against laws, just against bad laws protecting the corrupt and greedy ;-j

[JAF30]

@ELGROOVER

So you personally .. and I do mean personally know that Tom Waits has a attitude just like Prince. If not then why are you stating that you do? And man, your saying corporate law is the worst and the law doesn't benifit people? Yeah tell me when your car/bike or what ever gets stolen. Or some corporation makes something that kills people and then gets charged with it. According to your logic that bit of corp law is bad too. So law even if it protects you is bad..dreamer.

[ELGROOVER]

to JAF30

I was never trying to 'sell' anything other than his song but it was muted at upload...so I made the swap in protest. It's the *over zealous* enforcement of copyright on media like here that I'm against, not copyright per se. As I originally wrote, "A missed opportunity for people to hear (and then buy) your music..."

As for the "LAW", that's not for most peoples benefit, so please don't tout that at me ; especially when it comes to corporate law (the very worst)!! ;-j

[JAF30]

@ezekieloak

You are someone who understand music and buying music. Buy what you love not what is pushed on you and share that music. The record companies make more money on what is popular not what is real music.

[JAF30]

@ELGROOVER

So your mad at the artist who has defended his songs against those who used them in commercials without his permission. And since he has to keep defending his copyright or loose the ability to control it you moan that he has to file a notice for you to change the song. Your not thinking, you yell because the guy is defending his creations the way the LAW dictates. And he has given the results to charity.

[ELGROOVER]

to aschleman ~ you miss the point ; preventing music being heard stifles sales rather than increases them and plenty of artists agree but Waits, like Prince, isn't one of them. Where did you get the idea that I don't buy music!? Media like Youtube has brought more artists to my ear that I may not otherwise of heard and as a result I've purchased their music. Regarding respect ; yes, for the musicans, but as for the corporations, forget it, there're a bad business (as are many charities!) ;-j

[aschleman]

dude, if you were a musician (and had a record deal) you would have no problem with enforcing copyright laws... it's how these people make a living... besides that, it very rarely has anything to do with the actual artists. it's due to corporate revenue loss prevention. it's a business not a charity. have some respect man. i bought this album on CD and paid 75 dollars for it on vinyl. if you like an artist you should support them by shelling out the measly 10-15 for the album.

[ELGROOVER]

I see that's disappeared now ;-j