Thomas Alan Waits (nacido en Pomona (California) el 7 de diciembre de 1949) es un pianista, cantante, compositor y actor estadounidense, famoso por sus canciones de tono áspero inspiradas en escritores de la generación Beat, en especial Jack Kerouac
En 1967 comenzó a trabajar en los cabarets de Los Ángeles, ambiente que le influyó mucho para las canciones de su primer disco, Closing Time (1973), aunque este álbum se vio eclipsado por The Eagles y Tim Buckley
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: [email protected] (spideir) Subject: CRD: Better Off Without a Wife (T. Waits)
BETTER OFF WITHOUT A WIFE (Tom Waits) ========================
-- comp. Tom Waits (from _Nighthawks_at_the_Diner_) -- "transcr." tcg [recently divorced!], 198? -- 4/4 // Key of G // Andante (pretty slow) -- each chord symbol OR slash = 1 beat
VERSE 1: G / D7sus4 / All my friends are married-- G / D7sus4 / Ev'ry Tom and Dick and Harry-- GD7/F#Em(7) / Am(7) / D(7) / It must be strong of you to go it alone-- G / D7sus4 / Here's to the bachelors and the Bow'ry bums-- G / D7sus4 / Those who feel that they're the ones that are GEmAm(7) D(7)G C/GG / Better Off Without a Wife--
CHORUS: C / D(7) / I been sleepin' until the crack of noon-- GD7/F#Em / Midnight howlin' at the moon-- and I been Am(7) / D(7) / Goin' out when I want to, (and I'm) G / G7 / Comin' home when I please-- C / D(7) / Don't have to ask permission GD7/F#Em / If I wanna go out fishin'-- Am(7) / / / D7sus4 / D7 / Never have to ask for the keys--
VERSE 2 [!!]: G / D7sus4 / Well, I never been no Valentino-- G / D7sus4 / But I had a girl who lived in Reno-- GD7/F#Em(7) / Am(7) / D(7) / Left me for a trumpet player, but it didn't get me down-- G / D7sus4 / He was wanted for assault, and though he G / D7sus4 / Said it weren't his fault-- GEmAm(7) D(7)G C/GG / You know the coppers rode him right outa town--
G / D7sus4 / G / D7sus4 / _Ah,_yu'_see,_I'm_kinda_selfish_about_my privacy_-- GD7/F#Em(7) / Am(7) / Now as long as I can be with me, _we_get_along_so_well,_I_can_ D(7) / _hardly_believe_it_-- G / D7sus4 / Love to chew the fat with folks-- G / D7sus4 / I been list'nin' to all your dirty jokes-- GEmAm(7) D(7)G C/GG / I'm so thankful for these friends I do receive--
CHORUS [...recording ends (& begins) with some "Here Comes the Bride" piano!]