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