The refrain of “Tom Traubert’s Blues”, “waltzing Matilda”, references an experience that its writer, Tom Waits, had. That is to say that he literally waltzed with Matilda, that being one Mathilde Bondo, in her native...
To begin with, Tom Waits’ “Day After Tomorrow” is what we will describe as a political song with a very strong political message. Waits composed this classic specifically from the view point of an...
The title (“Ol’ 55”) is apparently referring to a motor vehicle that was manufactured back in 1955. And the significance it has is as being the narrator’s first car. So basically, what he is doing...
