These things happen. Had the same experience with Shane MacGowan in December. Tom Waits I have know now for 35 years.... But being a music lover it really feels strange to have missed just an important musician.
I'm 71. I have seen and heard everyone from Dylan in 63 to today. Tom is an original. He is brilliant. This song is brilliant. I listen to at least once a month. It never gets old. Get a glass of port and sit back and listen.
spectacularbid I just read your comments, and could not agree with you more!!!!😎, As he sings as I actually type this, Lol!... love this song. And listen to it like you as well!, tonight it’s gin, but some porter sounds great as well!! Enjoy!!
One of the greatest writers ever to walk this beautiful planet. He has written unparalleled music for the dejected, the lonely, and the desperate vagabonds that are all written off as "filth."
A true artist, heart, soul , flesh and blood. I love this great man, his songs have helped me make sense of this mad world since i discovered him in the late `70`s with `Blue Valentine` album and then checked out his previous albums and he still does it after all these decades. In all fairness this guy is a rare breed and we are lucky to have such a gift from God above!
It was the voice with the song that stopped me in my tracts in 76. Listening to 102.7 FM they played this song by Waits and I was hooked solid. And my record collection got bigger.
I am mourning the death of my 95-year-old father who I was the caregiver for for 2 1/2 years passed away three weeks ago ! Tom Waits music and crown royal always helps me get through hard times thank God and God rest my fathers soul ! Greg
Deswegen berührt mich die Musik auch so unglaublich.Mein Leben war und ist auch nicht gerade, dass was man als schön,leicht und liebevoll nennen würde.Pat.
I remember a girl I danced with many years ago. We didn't dance the waltz, let alone waltzing Matilda. But we danced after I knew it was already over, yet we just hadn't said so out loud. All these years later I miss her but I'm glad she found happiness. Neither of us was capable of sustaining a relationship. But she's happy now, and I'm sometimes getting there. Tom helps sometimes. More than sometimes.
Cross roads aka suicides etc . . refers to the synchroton cross . . hard times during the Sun swap . . the 30 yrs without child aka Adam & Eve electric
Love your comment. I can see him standing there ..but i think he was just drinking & wanted a song.. they threw the extra soul in for free..hey the devil knows a good deal when he sees it..he said..Step Right Up..everyone's a winner bargains galore.😄👺✌
Tom Waits was a message from the universe to everyone who loves to sing. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't. "You'll never be a singer with that voice." "Oh? I think I'll go be one of history's most amazing singers, then. Piss off."
I had his record when I was a high school girl in Tokyo. Over three decades later, now living in the US, I suddenly run into this. Even long after I lost his name, I never forgot this voice. I will never let it go this time. Thank you for uploading.
may I ask, how did a school girl in Tokyo around 1980 get her hands on a record like that? was he popular in Japan at that time? were you into alternative music?
Tom is for the heart, not just the ears. He teaches us that true beauty comes from within. Can you imagine someone with a silken voice singing this? (like maybe Frank Sinatra?) It might sound good. You m,ight even like it. But it could never capture the pain. The sorrow. The love and regret and loss and longing. It wouldn't speak to the heart. And that's where Tom's music resides. Not in the ears. But the heart. Long live Tom Waits. (slept with a dream before he had to go away...beautiful.)
Prolific song writer. His voice is great. I heard him warm up for 4 or 5 hours once. I'd snuck into the venue at 1pm. When I'd think of a voice like you describe I think Fred Neil
This is how I feel while listening also. At first I was omg 😳 to his voice .... But I'm actually soothed by his voice. and he is very good at singing. It's just a very unique flavor. ❤ I'm glad to read your comment
It’s his take on it that is soooo moving. Listen to some of the “originals”. Lots of pride and sentimentality, not much soul! Tom Waits is a miracle! A beautiful soul with a brain that functions in conjunction!
@@JamesHathaway01 Only the bridge was written ans part of a song called Waltzing Matilda. This is "Tom Traubert's Blues or Waltzing Matilda". This song , except the bridge was written by Waits. He can use the "bridge" because that song from 1895 is in Public Domain
Es klingt für manche Menschen schräg - Für mich ist es das genialste und ehrlichste, daß ich in meinem Leben gehört habe ! Danke Tom Waits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Daniel Durchholz said Tom's voice sounds "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." I'm glad I can listen to him sing
When I met my husband he was living at the beach and the only music that he had was a cassette of Small Change that played all night while we talked and talked and and I never wanted to leave him.
Tom Waits sounds like a pirate chugging battery acid, a revving car, Louis Armstrong, and a very worn-down hobo all at the same time. And he's awesome.
My dad passed on last Christmas Eve. He was 88. 88 keys on the piano. He was a piano and organist. It’s the hardest thing to go through. I miss and love my dad so much.
I learned about this song through my partner Mirjam about 8 years ago. Since then I play this song whenever I’m travelling and I miss her. Last year when she turned 50 I sang this song for her, with my son on piano and Mirjam’s sister on cello. A night to never forget! Thank you Tom Waits for this best song ever!
@@unterwant Da hast du völlig Recht,,ich kann das oft nicht so gut in Worte wiedergegeben,aber es gibt nichts,was meine Gefühle ,auf diese Art in Aufruhr bringt,Danke für deine Antwort.Pat
@@petramichels7029 habe Nick Cave jetzt mal angehört und angeschaut. Ist interessant, aber für mich passt es nicht so gut. Vielleicht liegt es an meinem Alter oder meiner eher bluesigen musikalischen Prägung in meiner Jugend ...... (Tom Traubert Blues ...) have a nice day !!!!
Everything about this is perfect, the song ,his voice, the music , but also the emotion on his face combined with the emotion in his voice is what makes this so special
I signed up youtube to write this: I saw him in Sydney in 1979 (or was it 80?). Best concert I've ever seen. Tom Traubert's Blue (this) was his encore, of course. He graveled... "Um..., er... I've um... y'know... I've kinda stolen your unofficial national anthem on this next one." *Wild applause* *A pause...* "I'll give it back when I'm done..." Thank you Tom.
We are all so fortunate to be sharing the same moment in time as such fabulous poet/songwriters as Waits, Dylan, Cohen, Prine, Morrison and so many others.
Tom I love how in the early days you were so shy you'd nearly run away after the performance. you're so beautiful and don't want people too see. a truly endearing QUALITY. love you xxx
It's true, just remember that Tom is an actor. I've known a lot of people, especially in the naivete of youth, who have destroyed or killed themselves trying to imitate a fictional character. Tom was 28 here. He would not be alive today if he actually lived the lifestyle he portrays in his characters.
Make that 2019 now. With Tom and a bit of choolate ... we made it out of the frying pan that was last year and into the fire that this one will be. We'll be needing his songs more than ever.
So glad I found Tom Waits sing this beautiful music. It’s such a sad time in our country, so many dead. My family lost three members just in one month. Not the virus, but suddenly. We grieve, we mourn. Our hearts are broken. 💔💔💔. They each cherished
Me and my friends still play some Tom Waits regularly, pop some beers and light up the bbq, put on some christmas lights (beautiful on summer nights). Good music knows no age
Thank you for your comments. I had an Aussie friend I recommended this song to. He absolutely hated it, thought it was disrespectful to Australians. I apologized profusely but in my heart thought he was wrong.
Sad to hear you're Cobber hates this Great Tune.... Guessing He's from down Victoria way, They're a weird mob ;) hahahaha But I'm proud to boast that i spent nearly a year managing the beautiful North Gregory Hotel in Winton QUEENSLAND, where it's widely believed Banjo Paterson first publicly performed it around 120 years ago. :D
He's actually from Newcastle. I heard a standard version of Waltzing Matilda first and always loved it but Tom's version..." I've lost my St. Christopher now that I've kissed her and the one armed bandit knows..." - wow!
I have been a fan for a lifetime now and this song always brings tear to my eye and I am glad I can still say that. Even after a lifetime of listening to Tom just the best
In these times where menhood seems to become more and more synthetic songs like these are essential. Reminding us what REAL emotions are, what REAL life is! Love it!!!
To go a "waltzing matilda" is an Australian expression, it means to take your “swag" (you're belongings) and go on out on-the-road. An itinerate lifestyle during hard times. A vagabond.
@@mrthedudeman no walkabout is a term used by Indigenous Australians meaning to wander/to explore and go about their business. The (whole song) Waltzing Matilda is about an itinerant on the road who steals a sheep (a jumbuck) and then jumps in a billabong (pond) to escape troopers (police) and dies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda
@@goldenchild4835 white people use the term "walkabout" as well. Saw it in a Portlandia sketch when the power goes out the "birdman" gets people together for a "walkabout". I know it's unrelated but check it out it is quite funny mate.
@@mrthedudeman they can, but the term's derived from Indigenous Australians. It can also mean losing focus and having your mind drift, like "I was in the middle of doing something and my mind went walkabout". It now seems that every ski mountain in North America now has an area they call, Outback. When the terms are borrowed they can take on a different meaning, sometimes because the term wasn't fully understood when it was borrowed, but that's language, eh.
Darf ich deutsch schreiben?.....ich habe Tom Waits durch meinen damaligen Freund kennen & lieben gelernt. Er ist für mich musikalisch nicht erreichbar.....aber auch nur wegen seiner Genialität.......jeder seiner Songs....ohne Worte......ich danke ihm für jeden seiner gesungenen Zeilen......
I'm 37. Most of my favourite singers started out in the 70s or earlier. Dylan, Springsteen, Meat Loaf, Mark Knopfler, Billy Joel and this man right here. Growing up, i wasn't fussed about many "current" artists, but now I make sure I listen to one of the numerous music channels at least a couple of times a week, because there are some good singers and some good songs around. The difference is that new music has a base in perfection. Perfect voice, perfect appearance, perfect pitch, but will many of them be remembered as much as those I mentioned at the start of this post? No because, with the odd exception, they don't the heart, the truth and the raw emotions that old music has.
There will never be another Tom waits as there will never be another Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Charles Chaplin, Airton Senna, Pelé, Garrincha, singing, performing or playing, they are the only ones and there will never be someone like them, maibe similar but never equal.
Just a note from an Aussie - Waltzing Matilda is a song about wandering, about travelling with friends or alone. Matilda was a name for ones ‘swag’ and to “waltz Matilda” meant to ‘dance’ or walk (with dare I say joy’ ) while carrying your swag (most important possessions in the world). It’s an up song about someone who others might consider down on his luck. But he’s free, see. I love this version as I do all things Tom Waits. Tom nailed the intention of the song . It’s one of the reasons Australians love Waltzing Matilda like a national anthem (it’s considered our unofficial national anthem) - because it’s about a certain freedom.
I never knew that's where "swag" came from. Thanks for sharing all this information, very interesting context, for both this song, and the unofficial national anthem of Australia.
Maurice Wilgress Bullock, former ANZAC and Australian swagman, died September 1955, aged 42 of starvation, exposure and cirrhosis of the liver. His death certificate records that he died with 'no issue', i.e no children. They were wrong. I found his grave in Trentham cemetery, Victoria last year. His son, born 1953, England.
No voice gets inside the most guarded parts of your heart and soul like Tom does, unique, brilliant and a pure one off. Be careful, once inside your heart he can tear it apart and leave you bleeding and vulnerable.
@@eugenehughgene4271 ... it's pretty sad when you have to edit a two-word response. Just saying. Maybe you should leave the guy who obviously respects this great poet alone. He's got 70 years plus now on this planet he seen things you could not even imagine. Shove off Punk.
My grandfather was burried couple of months ago. This was one of his songs on the funeral. I will forever listen to this. It brings me back to that moment. Full of grief, joy and this song just silences me. It takes me out of the moment we live in. Love it
God I love Toms music , I’m getting old now but his music isn’t! I have a great nephew who loves hip hop , and Tom Waits, he’l grow up and passing the music on!, thanks Tom for helping me bridge 2 generations!
Ich habe das Lied immer mal im Radio gehört, aber nicht gewusst, wer es singt. Ich habe versucht es über alle möglichen Portale und Medien heraus zu finden, aber es ist mir lange nicht gelungen. Jetzt habe ich es wieder im Radio gehört und schnell mein Musikerkennungsprogramm eingeschaltet. Hurra, endlich habe ich gefunden. Ich liebe seine Stimme und das Lied ❤
When you find Tom. You never lose him he becomes part of your life.
it is!!
He is special and a real person. What a poet and performer, the gift that keeps giving. Godspeed Tom Waits.
True.
Yes he did.
The only version that matters 🙏
Check out maken and Clancy very good rendition 🙋♂️
There never was, and there will never be another Tom Waits. We are lucky to have him on this planet with us. I've been a fan for 45 years.
AMEN!
i don't understand what hopeless romantics did before tom waits? i'd be lost.
....love him !
gheumann It's a great man
gheumann he is a bit old to still be a diddy man
60 year old music lover. Just heard Tom for the first time last week….how is that possible ??? Genius !
Sometimes happens things like this haha. 😉
You have a great journey to look forward to.
Doesn't matter. you know now. explore everything you can find.
Cried my eyes off…Jesus…
These things happen. Had the same experience with Shane MacGowan in December. Tom Waits I have know now for 35 years.... But being a music lover it really feels strange to have missed just an important musician.
I'm 71. I have seen and heard everyone from Dylan in 63 to today. Tom is an original. He is brilliant. This song is brilliant. I listen to at least once a month. It never gets old. Get a glass of port and sit back and listen.
Open up a bottle, turn off phone, and listen.... All night. Nothing better!
spectacularbid right there with you brother. This is heartbreakingly good. Brilliant.
I just love his songs and his voices. Beauty doesn't have to be "pretty".
spectacularbid I just read your comments, and could not agree with you more!!!!😎, As he sings as I actually type this, Lol!... love this song. And listen to it like you as well!, tonight it’s gin, but some porter sounds great as well!! Enjoy!!
Vintage
Someone once said that Tom Waits sings like an angel with the voice of a demon. I agree 300%.
Wow
I feel so glad to have had Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen in my life time. Their poetry has gotten me thru many decades of lost paths. Thank you
Mee . . To . . Tannin . /// . Bear Now . 50 . Years . Pink . Floyd .
I love them too. I clear my throat for them both.
Yep me also n JJ Cale Budgy Australia 🍻
An JJ Cale Budgy Australia
When I read Leonard Cohen's poetry, I put on a Tom Waits LP or CD.
One of the greatest writers ever to walk this beautiful planet. He has written unparalleled music for the dejected, the lonely, and the desperate vagabonds that are all written off as "filth."
A true artist, heart, soul , flesh and blood. I love this great man, his songs have helped me make sense of this mad world since i discovered him in the late `70`s with `Blue Valentine` album and then checked out his previous albums and he still does it after all these decades. In all fairness this guy is a rare breed and we are lucky to have such a gift from God above!
It was the voice with the song that stopped me in my tracts in 76. Listening to 102.7 FM they played this song by Waits and I was hooked solid. And my record collection got bigger.
This song makes me cry
Me too, i'm 76 years old.
So it does with me
Went to tom Waits concert in Sydney, Australia circa 1975, he closed the show with this song, was not a dry eye in the house.
I wish I had of been there.
I was there too 🙌
Lived in the Village in the 70's. Drove a cab. Hung out at CBGB's. Caught Tom in different venues. What a time
This song moves me every time I hear it. I never get tired of it.
I am mourning the death of my 95-year-old father who I was the caregiver for for 2 1/2 years passed away three weeks ago !
Tom Waits music and crown royal always helps me get through hard times thank God and God rest my fathers soul ! Greg
God bless your father. From a fellow caregiver and Tom Waits lover. So sorry for your loss.
My mum died 10 months ago, l feel ya😭, after this I going too always keep a diamond in your mind.🤗
Rest forever, waltz forever my darling
@@bronwynreiss5660
I dont know what to say. But I said it anyways
As a hospice nurse thanks for caring for your pa.
Tom Waits always sings about the poorest and lost souls. I love this!
Schon geschrieben,sehe daß genauso!Danke
Deswegen berührt mich die Musik auch so unglaublich.Mein Leben war und ist auch nicht gerade, dass was man als schön,leicht und liebevoll nennen würde.Pat.
He is the best ever! If you don't cry at his arrangement & performance of this classic,...you need to check your pulse to see if you're still alive.
I remember a girl I danced with many years ago. We didn't dance the waltz, let alone waltzing Matilda. But we danced after I knew it was already over, yet we just hadn't said so out loud. All these years later I miss her but I'm glad she found happiness. Neither of us was capable of sustaining a relationship. But she's happy now, and I'm sometimes getting there. Tom helps sometimes. More than sometimes.
Sounds like it’s time for “Martha”.
Tom must have bought an extra soul at the crossroads.
:')
Cross roads aka suicides etc . . refers to the synchroton cross . . hard times during the Sun swap . . the 30 yrs without child aka Adam & Eve electric
Love your comment. I can see him standing there ..but i think he was just drinking & wanted a song.. they threw the extra soul in for free..hey the devil knows a good deal when he sees it..he said..Step Right Up..everyone's a winner bargains galore.😄👺✌
Tom Waits was a message from the universe to everyone who loves to sing. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't.
"You'll never be a singer with that voice."
"Oh? I think I'll go be one of history's most amazing singers, then. Piss off."
Ein charismatischer Künstler und ein episches Ereignis. Grandios. Ich weiß nicht wie oft ich das schon gehört habe. Danke, Tom Waits. 🦊
I had his record when I was a high school girl in Tokyo. Over three decades later, now living in the US, I suddenly run into this. Even long after I lost his name, I never forgot this voice. I will never let it go this time. Thank you for uploading.
That is beautiful💚✨
may I ask, how did a school girl in Tokyo around 1980 get her hands on a record like that? was he popular in Japan at that time? were you into alternative music?
How beautiful...❤
@@roberthermans6357 he's got the moon, he's got the cheese, and from what I hear he has the whole damn nation on their knees
This was the first song I ever heard from Tom. I was 17. I fell in love with his music instantly. I'm 48 now, feels like it was yesterday...
Tom is for the heart, not just the ears. He teaches us that true beauty comes from within. Can you imagine someone with a silken voice singing this? (like maybe Frank Sinatra?) It might sound good. You m,ight even like it. But it could never capture the pain. The sorrow. The love and regret and loss and longing. It wouldn't speak to the heart. And that's where Tom's music resides. Not in the ears. But the heart. Long live Tom Waits. (slept with a dream before he had to go away...beautiful.)
Prolific song writer. His voice is great. I heard him warm up for 4 or 5 hours once. I'd snuck into the venue at 1pm. When I'd think of a voice like you describe I think Fred Neil
This is how I feel while listening also. At first I was omg 😳 to his voice .... But I'm actually soothed by his voice. and he is very good at singing. It's just a very unique flavor. ❤ I'm glad to read your comment
im 61 and is the best song of all time
Than'ks Tom Waits ! It's my preferate song !
Me too. Peace to you tonight.
my god that is one of the most beautiful songs ever written...
Bobboy Shmurda hot nigga comes close
I was surprised to find that it was written in 1895.
Only comparation with My Way
It’s his take on it that is soooo moving. Listen to some of the “originals”. Lots of pride and sentimentality, not much soul!
Tom Waits is a miracle! A beautiful soul with a brain that functions in conjunction!
@@JamesHathaway01 Only the bridge was written ans part of a song called Waltzing Matilda. This is "Tom Traubert's Blues or Waltzing Matilda". This song , except the bridge was written by Waits. He can use the "bridge" because that song from 1895 is in Public Domain
One of the most beautiful songs ever ❤️
Tom Waits is Dostoevsky from New Jersey
Art alone can save the world
We love you
New Jersey? Waits was born, raised and has lived most of his life in California.
And it was beauty, not art, that can save the world
Hank Chinasky Do you like Nick Cave, my Bukowski friend?
Patricio Fernandez Not as much as Tom 🙂
"Dostoevsky from New Jersey" -- great line
This beautiful man. Nobody hits the tear ducks like Tom...
Es klingt für manche Menschen schräg - Für mich ist es das genialste und ehrlichste, daß ich in meinem Leben gehört habe ! Danke Tom Waits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nein nicht schräg, ein kurzer magischer Moment.
Was für ein Künstler 🙏🙏🙏
Sublime
Daniel Durchholz said Tom's voice sounds "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." I'm glad I can listen to him sing
That's some fine Bourbon!
PV Douglas the voice description re tom waits..priceless..and spot on...but above all ..respectful...thank you for sharing...❤️❤️🇨🇦
@@paulinechapman9319 Yes....I agree....totally brilliant! :)
His voice (& Noddy & Janis) could tear open a tin can.
When I met my husband he was living at the beach and the only music that he had was a cassette of Small Change that played all night while we talked and talked and and I never wanted to leave him.
Hi how are you doing. Hope you are fine and staying safe out there?
Tom Waits sounds like a pirate chugging battery acid, a revving car, Louis Armstrong, and a very worn-down hobo all at the same time.
And he's awesome.
Funny..
Don't he!!
A well worn piece of leather troubadour
My dad passed on last Christmas Eve. He was 88. 88 keys on the piano. He was a piano and organist. It’s the hardest thing to go through. I miss and love my dad so much.
May his soul rest in piece and you still bear a great memories, legacy, smile and every great or little gift he passed upon you.
@@martinpavlicek2299thanks brother
The most perfect 7 minutes of music of all time
Pmm
Pizzatramp bang on
Tom is one of the very few who can open his soul each and every performance. He lets us see what's inside and we're always amazed.
I learned about this song through my partner Mirjam about 8 years ago. Since then I play this song whenever I’m travelling and I miss her. Last year when she turned 50 I sang this song for her, with my son on piano and Mirjam’s sister on cello. A night to never forget! Thank you Tom Waits for this best song ever!
Beautiful ❤
WoW!Die Stimme ist ein Geschenk, für die Welt und für Tom!wunderschön!!!
Tom Waits ist das Geschenk, dass er uns macht!
seine Stimme .... comes deep from his soal ...
⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲
@@unterwant Da hast du völlig Recht,,ich kann das oft nicht so gut in Worte wiedergegeben,aber es gibt nichts,was meine Gefühle ,auf diese Art in Aufruhr bringt,Danke für deine Antwort.Pat
@@unterwant Kennst du den Song von Nick Cave*The Dead ist not The Ende?Kein Tom Waits,aber auch ein sehr interessanter Musiker.Pat
@@petramichels7029 habe Nick Cave jetzt mal angehört und angeschaut. Ist interessant, aber für mich passt es nicht so gut. Vielleicht liegt es an meinem Alter oder meiner eher bluesigen musikalischen Prägung in meiner Jugend ...... (Tom Traubert Blues ...)
have a nice day !!!!
Everything about this is perfect, the song ,his voice, the music , but also the emotion on his face combined with the emotion in his voice is what makes this so special
How beautiful is this rendition. I love you, Tom
Corona virus.. Tom whiskey and my dog... Stay safe out there 💜💜💜💜
You too. :) Still watching. :)
Thank you. Hope you are and you dog are still safe. It’s been a rough year eh? Thank god for Tom. Cheers From 🇦🇺
Is it normal to cry after hearing this? Amazing work!
yes
cry each and EVERY time
Tom hits too close to home everytime, so yeah, it´s very normal
yes
Perfectly normal. I am doing so now.
I cry ever time I listen to him sing this song. He does it better than anyone else. Ever.
I signed up youtube to write this:
I saw him in Sydney in 1979 (or was it 80?). Best concert I've ever seen. Tom Traubert's Blue (this) was his encore, of course. He graveled... "Um..., er... I've um... y'know... I've kinda stolen your unofficial national anthem on this next one."
*Wild applause*
*A pause...*
"I'll give it back when I'm done..."
Thank you Tom.
I felt this. Didn’t just hear it,I felt it and it left a scar.
I cannot believe I have only just discovered this man. Auithentiicity and a bourbon soaked heart. Just amazing
welcome onboard!
Am I the only one who can't keep a dry eye listening to Tom Waits 😭?
We are all so fortunate to be sharing the same moment in time as such fabulous poet/songwriters as Waits, Dylan, Cohen, Prine, Morrison and so many others.
Don't forget Lou Reed and Bowie
Das ist die beste Version die ich kenne, das geht so Tief :-))
Those who don't "get" Tom Waits don't deserve to. Plain and simple. He is a genius. Iconic talent. Tom, come to Boston!!
Tom I love how in the early days you were so shy you'd nearly run away after the performance. you're so beautiful and don't want people too see. a truly endearing QUALITY. love you xxx
This song with a bottle of whisky, damn! Soo much feeling!
When you discover Tom Waits, you will never forget this song!
Cheers mate.
It's true, just remember that Tom is an actor. I've known a lot of people, especially in the naivete of youth, who have destroyed or killed themselves trying to imitate a fictional character. Tom was 28 here. He would not be alive today if he actually lived the lifestyle he portrays in his characters.
2018, the world hasn't ended and Tom is still cool.
T Clark im glad too heer it
The world HAS ended, but we still have Tom here in the afterlife
Make that 2019 now. With Tom and a bit of choolate ... we made it out of the frying pan that was last year and into the fire that this one will be. We'll be needing his songs more than ever.
2019
2020 and not so sure anymore, but Tom's still cool.
Such a fantastic singer songwriter. He reaches right inside.
I've literally watched this over 100 times.
1000
at least 2 times a month for the last 8 years
This song just grabs my heart till I can't fukin breathe
Poetry!
Join the club.
Exactly! Thanx for telling everyone how this song really hits a person with a soul.
So glad I found Tom Waits sing this beautiful music. It’s such a sad time in our country, so many dead. My family lost three members just in one month. Not the virus, but suddenly. We grieve, we mourn. Our hearts are broken. 💔💔💔. They each cherished
Sorry for your loss
I hope you are doing a little better a year on🤗🤗🤗
One of the greatest achievements in music performances in the history of humankind.
It makes me want to go waltzing Matilda too!! A wound that will never heal.
Me and my friends still play some Tom Waits regularly, pop some beers and light up the bbq, put on some christmas lights (beautiful on summer nights). Good music knows no age
"The streets aren't for dreaming now "that's a killer line, no other comment required.
As a PROUD Aussie, I can only Dip my lid in ENORMOUS respect to Tom 4 This !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRILLIANT interpretation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
;)
+ Dazza - no better version than Tom's
Thank you for your comments. I had an Aussie friend I recommended this song to. He absolutely hated it, thought it was disrespectful to Australians. I apologized profusely but in my heart thought he was wrong.
Sad to hear you're Cobber hates this Great Tune.... Guessing He's from down Victoria way, They're a weird mob ;) hahahaha
But I'm proud to boast that i spent nearly a year managing the beautiful North Gregory Hotel in Winton QUEENSLAND, where it's widely believed Banjo Paterson first publicly performed it around 120 years ago.
:D
He's actually from Newcastle. I heard a standard version of Waltzing Matilda first and always loved it but Tom's version..." I've lost my St. Christopher now that I've kissed her and the one armed bandit knows..." - wow!
Susan . You are a mysteri woman. But still I like your taste.
There's something special about Tom Waits. His music, his voice, his sound effects... Everything is just passionate.
I have a old cat he loves tom waits he goes to sleep listening to him lol
Genius. Incomparable. Legend. What more can I say!
I wish I could climb into this video and attend this concert live - what an amazing talent!
With tears in my eyes...
Such a great song - I love it so much!
I named my daughter Matilda, after this beautiful song. ❤️
his voice, the lyrics..just pure art giving me chills..heard this song when i was a young child, it´s still touching me like the first time.
I have been a fan for a lifetime now and this song always brings tear to my eye and I am glad I can still say that. Even after a lifetime of listening to Tom just the best
nobody has a voice like this! I met him once, he had dirty finger nails..and was adorable
Tom makes this gorgeous song almost unbearably personal.
In these times where menhood seems to become more and more synthetic songs like these are essential. Reminding us what REAL emotions are, what REAL life is! Love it!!!
This is a song for every times the beginning the future. It´s so, ready. It´s Unesco...
If I had a bucket list, seeing him live would be on it!!
Definitely
To go a "waltzing matilda" is an Australian expression, it means to take your “swag" (you're belongings) and go on out on-the-road. An itinerate lifestyle during hard times. A vagabond.
Thanks.
Same as a "walkabout"?
@@mrthedudeman no walkabout is a term used by Indigenous Australians meaning to wander/to explore and go about their business. The (whole song) Waltzing Matilda is about an itinerant on the road who steals a sheep (a jumbuck) and then jumps in a billabong (pond) to escape troopers (police) and dies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda
@@goldenchild4835 white people use the term "walkabout" as well. Saw it in a Portlandia sketch when the power goes out the "birdman" gets people together for a "walkabout". I know it's unrelated but check it out it is quite funny mate.
@@mrthedudeman they can, but the term's derived from Indigenous Australians. It can also mean losing focus and having your mind drift, like "I was in the middle of doing something and my mind went walkabout". It now seems that every ski mountain in North America now has an area they call, Outback. When the terms are borrowed they can take on a different meaning, sometimes because the term wasn't fully understood when it was borrowed, but that's language, eh.
I saw him in New Orleans in 1977. The bass note of my life. Then and now. Artist shaman national treasure
Darf ich deutsch schreiben?.....ich habe Tom Waits durch meinen damaligen Freund kennen & lieben gelernt. Er ist für mich musikalisch nicht erreichbar.....aber auch nur wegen seiner Genialität.......jeder seiner Songs....ohne Worte......ich danke ihm für jeden seiner gesungenen Zeilen......
This song is about homeless people, alcoholics & the dark streets of King's Cross, but it still inspire's me
I'm 37. Most of my favourite singers started out in the 70s or earlier. Dylan, Springsteen, Meat Loaf, Mark Knopfler, Billy Joel and this man right here. Growing up, i wasn't fussed about many "current" artists, but now I make sure I listen to one of the numerous music channels at least a couple of times a week, because there are some good singers and some good songs around. The difference is that new music has a base in perfection. Perfect voice, perfect appearance, perfect pitch, but will many of them be remembered as much as those I mentioned at the start of this post? No because, with the odd exception, they don't the heart, the truth and the raw emotions that old music has.
Being an Australian this was a song we sang at school, it was waltzing madiltda but totally different song this was really cool song too
Obviously the lyrics help but it never ceases to amaze me how much emotion can be conveyed by someone who sounds like he’s gargling gravel.
Tom always brings a a whole new meaning to putting you whole and heart into it ... love it!!
There will never be another Tom waits as there will never be another Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Charles Chaplin, Airton Senna, Pelé, Garrincha, singing, performing or playing, they are the only ones and there will never be someone like them, maibe similar but never equal.
I am sad, because I can't "like" it 1000 times...
agree!!!
Just a note from an Aussie - Waltzing Matilda is a song about wandering, about travelling with friends or alone. Matilda was a name for ones ‘swag’ and to “waltz Matilda” meant to ‘dance’ or walk (with dare I say joy’ ) while carrying your swag (most important possessions in the world). It’s an up song about someone who others might consider down on his luck. But he’s free, see. I love this version as I do all things Tom Waits. Tom nailed the intention of the song . It’s one of the reasons Australians love Waltzing Matilda like a national anthem (it’s considered our unofficial national anthem) - because it’s about a certain freedom.
I never knew that's where "swag" came from. Thanks for sharing all this information, very interesting context, for both this song, and the unofficial national anthem of Australia.
Maurice Wilgress Bullock, former ANZAC and Australian swagman, died September 1955, aged 42 of starvation, exposure and cirrhosis of the liver. His death certificate records that he died with 'no issue', i.e no children. They were wrong. I found his grave in Trentham cemetery, Victoria last year.
His son, born 1953, England.
@@Entertainer114 I learned this, and more, at Wikipedia. I often click there for "weird" songs and get their take on it!☠️
Thank from Finland, also thanks youtube, lets share this, love You
Heard “Walzing Mathilde” for the first time in 1959. But this is special .. love it!
No voice gets inside the most guarded parts of your heart and soul like Tom does, unique, brilliant and a pure one off. Be careful, once inside your heart he can tear it apart and leave you bleeding and vulnerable.
...with a smile on your face!
I need some new adjectives to describe this genius of an artist.
Tom, it's a good thing you found your art. Because you would'a ended up livin' under an overpass otherwise.
Gad bless you man.
John~
American Net'Zen
I'm nearly 70 no applause needed I have always thought this track suppurb, brilliant and one of the greats. And believe me I've heard them all. 😆😆😆
Exactly
nearly 70 and still can't spell "superb" , and they say that the new generation ain't got no education
Kyrie Irving which language are you writing in?
Mike Walker Arabic obviously...
@@eugenehughgene4271 ... it's pretty sad when you have to edit a two-word response. Just saying. Maybe you should leave the guy who obviously respects this great poet alone. He's got 70 years plus now on this planet he seen things you could not even imagine. Shove off Punk.
" a battered old suitcase & a hotel room somelace -
and wounds that will never heal " ..... .... ... .. .
My grandfather was burried couple of months ago. This was one of his songs on the funeral. I will forever listen to this. It brings me back to that moment. Full of grief, joy and this song just silences me. It takes me out of the moment we live in. Love it
Never before have I heard this version...... Blew me away.... The emotion is intense.
There are few things in life as beautiful as this. Pass the Kleenex.
I was about 12 years old then i heard ithis song the first, time, and it really got me!
Tom Waits is a genius!
What a man, a voice and uncountable emotions
ohhh boy tears again. What an artist
ace mumbo No
God I love Toms music , I’m getting old now but his music isn’t! I have a great nephew who loves hip hop , and Tom Waits, he’l grow up and passing the music on!, thanks Tom for helping me bridge 2 generations!
Whatever anyone says I cry every time I hear Tom's version of this song
so do I
+Peter Thaine This and his song 'If I Have To Go'. Just the best artist of our time.
Peter Thaine Tom Waits forever...
Me too, love from Germany 🙋♀️♥️
Ich habe das Lied immer mal im Radio gehört, aber nicht gewusst, wer es singt. Ich habe versucht es über alle möglichen Portale und Medien heraus zu finden, aber es ist mir lange nicht gelungen. Jetzt habe ich es wieder im Radio gehört und schnell mein Musikerkennungsprogramm eingeschaltet. Hurra, endlich habe ich gefunden. Ich liebe seine Stimme und das Lied ❤