It's raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
You feel all right when you hear that music ring
Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
But the horns, they blowing that sound
Way on down south
Way on down south in London town^*
[...]
*: I looked this up after listening to the Kiosk version of "Green
Grass", which is to Tom Waits what "Sultans of Swing" is to swing (as
I remarked on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlv_KejUI_k#t=1m6s); anyway, it seems
like the two songs use a similar metre. I like the spooky original
addition to the cover by Kiosk frontman Arash Sobhani:
The grass grows by every stream
Like smiles faintly gleam
step gently cause it not to scream
For it has grown from a lover's dream
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