Adios Lounge I know an oldtimer Just a nickel-and-dimer At the bar down the Adios Lounge And for whiskey and smokes Recites poems and jokes But he’s not just your average clown And he’s entertaining nightly Down the Adios Lounge And he puts it politely But he does lay it down Now I lie here alone in my bed With these words running wild in my head He said Don’t let nobody go there for you Don’t be satisfied with a second-hand life Don’t let nobody stifle or bore you Handle your troubles or take on your strife Don’t let nobody live your life for you Not your friends, not your kids, no not even your wife If you want to know where the rainbow ends It’s you who´ve got to go there and find it my friend So I’m going back down To the Adios Lounge Where there’s no one to wait up for me I hope he’s still around Oh, that crazy old scrounge To tell us how things ought to be He said Don’t let nobody go there for you Don’t be satisfied with a second-hand life Don’t let nobody stifle or bore you Handle your troubles or take on your strife Don’t let nobody live your life for you Not your friends, not your kids, no not even your wife If you want to know where the rainbow ends It’s you who’ve got to go there and find it my friend So I buy him more drinks Just to hear what he thinks Oh, it’s worth it to see him almost smile It’s worth feeling free for a while At the bar down the Adios Lounge At the bar down the Adios Lounge At the bar down the Adios Lounge Words and music by Bob Kuhn and George M. Kuhn ©1992 Langis Songs / Kuhn Publishing

Produced by Al Kooper Engineered by Gary Laney Recorded at Sound Emporium, Nashville Tom Waits’ vocal was recorded by Mooka Rennick at Prairie Sun Recording, Cotati Bob Forrest: Vocals Dix Denney: Guitar Chris Handsome: Guitar Peter Weiss: Drums Martin LeNoble: Bass Tom Waits: Vocals Al Kooper: Keyboards Sam Bush: Mandolin Time: 4.22 Track 4 on Thelonius Monster’s album ‘Beautiful Mess’ 1992 Side A of a Thelonius Monster single (b/w ‘Vegas Weekend’) 1992 Track 4 on the EMI compilation ‘Alternative Rock Hits’ 1995 Track 7 on the bootleg ‘Tales from the Underground, Vol 1’