Blow wind blow
Wherever you may go
Put on your overcoat
Take me away
You gotta take me on into the night
Take me on into the night
Blow me away
Blow me away
Mary’s on the black top
There’s a husband in the doghouse
In the middle of a shakedown
I got quiet as a church mouse
Put my Raleigh’s on the dashboard
Sugar daddy caught a polocar
There’s no solitary tap dance
Way down here
Blow wind blow
Wherever you may go
Put on your overcoat
Take me into the night
Take me into the night
Blow me away
I ride upon a field mouse
I was dancin’ in the slaughterhouse
And if you swing along the beltway
You skid along the all day
Cause I went a little crazy
And I sat upon a high chair
And I’m smokin’ like a diesel
Way out here
And if you’ll blow wind blow
Wherever you may go
Put on your overcoat
Take me away
You gotta take me on into the night
Well, you take me on into the night
Blow me away
Blow me away
You gotta blow me away
Blow me away
Yeah
Words and music by Tom Waits
©1986, 1987 Jalma Music
Produced by Tom Waits
Recorded by Danny Leake and Biff Dawes
Mixed by Biff Dawes
Tom Waits: Vocals and pump organ
Greg Cohen: Alto horn
Francis Thumm: Pump organ
Michael Blair: Glockenspiel
Track 3 on the album ‘Franks Wild Years’ 1989
Time: 3.35
One live version available, on this bootleg:
San Francisco, California, December 31, 1990
The stage performance of the play, including this song, can be heard on this bootleg album:
Frank’s Wild Years, Briar Street Theatre, Chicago, June 17 and 21, 1986
Dutch singer Astrid Seriese did a cover version on her 1994 album ‘Secret World’.