- ASCAP title code: 380219138
- Songwriter/Composer: Thomas A. Waits (ASCAP #076.34.68.52)
- Publishers: Fifth Floor Music Inc.
- Tom Waits' original version says "there's just God when he's drunk", but for Sweet Daddy Hawk it's "that's just Screamin' Jay when he's drunk"!
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins' version was used in a Levi's commercial in 1993.
Waits vs. Levi Strauss and Co.
Cover versions
| Tom Waits () studio
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| Tom Waits |
LP HEART ATTACK AND VINE |
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1991 Screamin' Jay Hawkins () studio
Production: Robert Duffey
Musicians: Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vocals, piano)
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| 1991 Screamin' Jay Hawkins |
CD BLACK MUSIC FOR WHITE PEOPLE |
US:
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| John Hammond ()
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Lyrics
- 1991 Screamin' Jay Hawkins
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- Liar, liar with your pants on fire
- White spades hangin' on the telephone wire
- Gamblers reevaluate along the dotted line
- You'll never recognize yourself on heart attack and vine
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- Doctor, lawyer, beggar man, thief
- Philly Joe remarkable looks on in disbelief,
- If you want a taste of madness, you'll have to wait in line
- You'll probably see someone you know on heartattack and vine
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- Boney's high on China White, Shorty found a punk
- Don't you know there ain't no devil, that's just Screamin' Jay when he's drunk
- Well this stuff will probably kill you, let's do another line
- What you say you meet me down on heart attack and vine
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- [guitar solo]
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- See that little Jersey girl in the see-through top
- With the peddle pushers sucking on a soda pop
- Well I bet she's still a virgin but it's only twenty-five to nine
- You can see a million of 'em down on heart attack and vine
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- Better off in Iowa against your scrambled eggs
- Than crawling down the boulevard on a pair of broken legs
- You'll find that ignorance is bliss every goddamn time
- You're waitin' for the RTD on heart attack and vine
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- Boney's high on China White, Shorty found a punk
- Don't you know there ain't no devil, that's just Screamin' Jay when he's drunk
- Well this stuff will probably kill you, let's do another line
- What you say you meet me down on heart attack and vine
-
- Liar, liar with your pants on fire
- White spades hangin' on a telephone wire
- Gamblers reevaluate along the dotted line
- You'll never recognize yourself on heart attack and vine
-
- Doctor, lawyer, beggar man, thief
- Philly Joe remarkable looks on in disbelief,
- If you want a taste of madness, you'll have to wait in line
- You'll probably see someone you know on heart attack and vine
-
- See that little Jersey girl in the see-through top
- With the peddle pushers sucking on a soda pop
- Well I bet she's still a virgin but it's only twenty-five to nine
- You can see a million of 'em down on heart attack and vine
-
- Boney's high on China White, Shorty found a punk
- Don't you know there ain't no devil, that's just Screamin' Jay when he's drunk
- Well this stuff will probably kill you, let's do another line
- What you say you meet me down on heart attack and vine
- I see fellows, checkin' out the girls
- You're lookin' good
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