Coney Island Baby

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Awa… more »

Year:: 2002
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Every night she comes
To take me out to dreamland
When I'm with her, I'm the richest 
Man in the town
She's a rose, she's the pearl 
She's the spin on my world 
All the stars make their wishes on her eyes
She's my Coney Island Baby 
She's my Coney Island Girl 
She's a princess, in a red dress 
She's the moon in the mist to me 
She's my Coney Island Baby 
She's my Coney Island Girl

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Written by: Kathleen Brennan, Thomas Alan Waits

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