Song lyrics Soldier's Things by Tom Waits

Davenports and kettle drums and swallow-tail coats
Table cloths and patent leather shoes
Bathing suits and bowling balls and clarinets and rings
All this radio really needs is a fuse

A tinker, a tailor, a soldier?s things
His rifle, his boots full of rocks
Oh, and this one is for bravery
Oh, and this one is for me
And everything?s a dollar in this box

Cufflinks and hubcaps and trophies and paperbacks
It?s good transportation, but the brakes aren?t so hot
Neckties and boxing gloves, this jackknife is rusted
You can pound that dent out on the hood

A tinker, a tailor, a soldier?s things
His rifle, his boots full of rocks
Oh, and this one is for bravery
Oh, and this one is for me
And everything?s a dollar in this box
Taken from AlbumSongAndLyrics.com
Music & Lyrics by: Tom Waits
Official release: ?Swordfishtrombones?, Island Records Inc., © 1983