Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Orange Claw Hammer lyrics

A thick cloud caught a piper clubs tail The match struck blue on a railroad rail The old puff horse was just pullin' through And a man wore a peg leg forever I'm on the bum where the hobos run The air breaks with filthy chatter Oh, I don't care there's no place there I don't think it matters My skin's blazin' through and my clothes in tatters And the railroad looked like a Y up the hill of ladders One shoe fell on the gravel, one stick poked down Gray of age fell down on a pair of ears An eagle shined through my hole watch pocket A gingham girl, baby girl, pa**ed me by in tears A jack rabbit raised his folded ears A beautiful sagebrush jackrabbit And an oriole sang like an orange His breast full of worms and his tail clawed the evenin' like a hammer His wings took to air like a bomber And my rain can caught me a cup of water When I got into town, odd jobs mam ah, your horse I'll fodder I'm the 'round house man, I once was your father A little up the road, a wooden candy stripe barber pole And above it read a sign, "Painless Parker" Lic-licorice twisted around under a fly And a youngster co*ked her eye God before me if I'm not crazy is my daughter Come little one with your little dimpled fingers Give me one and I'll buy you a cherry phosphate Take you down to the foamin' brine and water And show you the wooden tits on the Goddess With the pole out's full sail That tempted away your peg-legged father I was shanghaied by a high hat beaver moustache man And his pirate friend I woke up in vomit and beer in a banana bin And a soft la** with brown skin Bore me seven babies with snappin' black eyes And beautiful ebony skin And here it is I'm with you my daughter Thirty years away can make a seaman's eyes A round house man's eyes flow out water, salt water