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Tom Waits - "16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six"
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Vocals
Fred Tackett
Fred Tackett
Electric Guitar
Joe Romano
Joe Romano
Trombone
Larry Taylor
Larry Taylor
Acoustic Bass Guitar
Stephen Hodges
Stephen Hodges
Drums
Victor Feldman
Victor Feldman
Percussion
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Producer
Biff Dawes
Biff Dawes
Recording Engineer
Bill Jackson
Bill Jackson
Assistant Engineer
Jeff Sanders
Jeff Sanders
Mastering Engineer
Peggy McCreary
Peggy McCreary
Assistant Engineer
Richard McKernon
Richard McKernon
Assistant Engineer

Lyrics

I plugged 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six And a Black Crow snuck through A hole in the sky So I spent all my buttons on an Old pack mule And I made me a ladder from A pawn shop marimba And I leaned it up against A dandelion tree And I filled me a sachel Full of old pig corn And I beat me a billy From an old French horn And I kicked that mule To the top of the tree And I blew me a hole 'Bout the size of a kickdrum And I cut me a switch From a long branch elbow I'm gonna whittle you into kindlin' Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six Whittle you into kindlin' Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six Well I slept in the holler Of a dry creek bed And I tore out the buckets From a red Corvette, tore out the buckets from a red Corvette Lionel and Dave and the Butcher made three You got to meet me by the knuckles of the skinnybone tree With the strings of a Washburn Stretched like a clothes line You know me and that mule scrambled right through the hole I'm gonna whittle you into kindlin' Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six Whittle you into kindlin' Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six Now I hold him prisoner In a Washburn jail That stapped on the back Of my old kick mule Strapped it on the back of my old kick mule I bang on the strings just To drive him crazy I strum it loud just to rattle his cage Strum it loud just to rattle his cage I'm gonna whittle you into kindlin' Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six Whittle you into kindlin' Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six
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