WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | I Cant Wait To Get Off Work Chords – Tom Waits | Version #1
[Verse 1]
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Well, I don't mind work - ing, 'cause I used to be jerk - ing off most of my time in bars,
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I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a so-da foun-tain jock-jerk
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And a man - ic me - chanic on cars.
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It's nice work if you can get it, now who the hell said it?
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I got mo - ney to spend on my gal__,
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But the work never stops, and I'll be busting my chops work - ing for Joe and Sal.
[Verse 2]
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I can't wait to get off work and see my baby, she said she'd leave the porch light on for me.
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I'm dishevelled and I'm disdainful and I'm distracted and it's painful,
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But this job sweeping up here is gain - fully em - ploy - ing me to - night.
[Verse 3]
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"Tom, do this", "Tom, do that", "Tom, don't do that!",
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Count the cash, clean the o - ven, dump the trash, Oh your lov-ing
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is a rare and a copa - cetic gift,
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I'm a moon-light watch manic, it's hard to be ro-mantic
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Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine, sweeping up over by the cigarette machine...
[Verse 4]
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I can't wait to get off work to see my ba-by,
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she'll be wait-ing up with a magazine for me.
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Clean the bath - rooms and clean 'em good, oh your lov-ing I wish you would
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Come down here and sweep a-me off my feet, this broom will have to be my ba - by,
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If I hur-ry, I just might get off be-fore the daw - n's ear - ly light.