Tom Waits on the Fallon Show: Raised Right Men
The new album by Tom Waits is a fantastic piece of work. Here he is on the Jimmy Fallon show, crooning “Raised Right Men” from Bad as Me. (He cut out a verse from this shortened TV version.)
There ain’t enough raised right men
it takes a raised right man to keep a happy hen
I said there ain’t enough raised right menheavens to murkatroid
miners to coal
a good woman can make a diamond out of a measly lump of coal
and you need the patience of a glacier
if you can wait that long
open up his window and admit it when he’s wrongthere ain’t enough raised right men
it takes a raised right man to keep a happy henMackey Debiasi
was a complicated man
he quarreled with his woman
and she quarreled with her man
his head was just too thick
so she knocked out a tooth
he’s that lonely man on the turnpike in the
toll takers booththere ain’t enough raised right men
Gunplay Maxwell and
Flat Nose George
Ice Pick Ed Newcomb
on a slab in the morgue
Flat Nose looked at Gunplay
and they all looked at me
with a good woman’s love we
could have saved all threeand there ain’t enough raised right men
It takes a raised right man to keep a happy hen
there ain’t enough raised right men