Tom Waits - Trouble's Braids lyrics

Well i pulled on trouble's braids And i hid in the briars Out by the quick mud Stayin' away from the main roads Pa**in' out wolf tickets Downwind from the blood hounds And i pulled on trouble's braids And i lay by a cypress As quiet as a stone 'til the bleeding stopped I blew the weather vane Off some old road house I build a fire in the Skeleton back seat of an old tucker And i pulled on trouble's braids I spanked cold red mud Where the hornet stung deep And i tossed in the ditch In a restless sleep And i pulled on trouble's braids I hung my rain-soaked jacket On some old barbed wire Poured cold rusty water On a miserable fire I pulled on trouble's braids The creek was swollen by daybreak and i could just Barely see And i floated downstream On an old dead tree And i pulled on trouble's braids I pulled on trouble's braids I pulled on trouble's braids I pulled on trouble's braids