Noirsville Tune of the Week

More Tom Waits performing Eggs and Sausages on the Mike Douglas show

 1976

Eggs And Sausage (live)

Nighthawks at the diner

Of Emma's 49er, there's a rendezvous

Of strangers around the coffee urn tonight

All the gypsy hacks, the insomniacs

Now the paper's been read

Now the waitress said

Eggs and sausage and a side of toast

Coffee and a roll, hash browns over easy

Chile in a bowl with burgers and fries

What kind of pie?

In a graveyard charade, a late shift masquerade

Two for a quarter, dime for a dance

With Woolworth rhinestone diamond

Earrings, and a sideway's glance

And now the register rings

And now the waitress sings

Eggs and sausage and a side of toast

Coffee and a roll, hash browns over easy

Chile in a bowl with burgers and fries

What kind of pie?

The classified section offered no direction

It's a cold caffeine in a nicotine cloud

Now the touch of your fingers

Lingers burning in my memory

I've been 86ed from your scheme

I'm in a melodramatic nocturnal scene

I'm a refugee from a disconcerted affair

As the lead pipe morning falls

And the waitress calls

Eggs and sausage and a side of toast

Coffee and a roll, hash browns over easy

Chile in a bowl with burgers and fries

What kind of pie?

scat

I just came in to join the crowd 

cause I had some time to kill.