Everybody a-waitin' an' a-waitin' Everybody a-waitin' an' a-waitin' Everybody just a-waitin' an' a and a-waitin' Everybody just waitin' time away
are waitin' for the county fair some are waitin' for a guy name Joe in Joe's comin' in the coast You know, haven't ol' Joe for a real long time. I hope that Joe's got that things been goin' better out there they have been 'roun' here, Everythin's been a slow in the middle.
Everybody, I mean everybody, I everybody, I mean Everybody been a-waitin' chorus]
are waitin' for their sandwich Some are on tables An' then the Ah the tables they get real inspired an' they get up an' they that boogaloo with the chairs Salt an' shaker keepin' time Window rollin' up, rollin' down Seems like some of tables and chairs got a lot more spunk than the people sittin' in 'em, at 'em, all 'em
everybody, everybody, everybody, I mean...
Waitin' for a new day.
are waitin' for a truck to come Some are waitin' for a bus to stop, 'em out to San Francisco about twelve years ago So they can walk into little store Look at a big oversize paperback book All about the of Time an' mantras An' Ram Dass, Baba Ram Dass, Baba Ram... tell ya' what it's all about. Maybe some a' you read about it in a some of you were there making the scene We know, we didn' know I swear, we know that we was jus' waiting for now.
Yeah, but, everybody a-waitin' an' a-waitin Everybody been an' a-waitin' an' an' a-waitin' an' a-waitin, heavy waitin' Waitin' in the water, jus' John Everybody been their time away.
Some are waitin' for a new of lover Some are to move it on over to a new kind-a job, You know, even ol' Tom is you know, you know ol', you know (sinks into Tom Waits voice) you know even ol', you even, you know ol' Tom Waits, uh... you even ol' Tom Waits has been... you even ol' Tom Waits has been waitin'
He been down by the docks, diners, uh... gotta of the poems of Jacques Prevert or sumthin... pocket, he's waitin' down... Lookin' for a blond to in with big tits an' bad teeth... uh, ah aroun'... bee bop uh kee bop ...
He's for his voice to clear up!
So he can say "good mornin'" to real, original, authentic wino-type guy, ya' know a lotta people might look like a these days but you gotta 'em out, gotta get a card. Say "good mornin' " to 'em an' then wino guy... he's... he looks at Tom an' he says... I gonna say what he says... but... Tom, he writes it in a little book, it all down in a little book, doin' awright, doin' awright, awright Jus' waitin' his away.
Some are for the new Galileo Some are waitin' for the new Some are for the new Mr. Freud He was 'sposed to be here about an ago. I was hopin' he could clear up for us jus' what's so funny about garbage disposal we got We know it means more than just a garbage disposal, a... a symbol, it could be a metaphor, be a simile, We gotta wait 'til Sigmund here...
Some are for the green Some are waitin' for the are waitin' for the green, some are waitin' for the blue... You waitin' for me, I been waitin' for you.
But then now you