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Toodles Mr. Jim Lyrics
Toodles Mr. Jim
you cherry picker
toodles I say, so long
hear that your grave's a little warm you stickler
sing 'em all your happy song
it's today
today Sunday
by your grave.
I say toodles Mr. Jim
you cherry picker
taught me so well
how to spell those red in
and
and
hey
you know she deserved that nose
splattered and swattered blood in my hands
not a nice day for your little girl
but you came to my aid instead.
Now, now it's toodles Mr. Jim
you cherry picker
build that ladder well
teach me just where those boys can climb
when they've got a spell.
Toodles Mr. Jim
you are my sweet favourite neighbor of them all
of them
girls go to their parties
I don't care
cause I'm with you
still
That was Toodles Mr. Jim.
Mr. Jim died
two weeks ago
and he taught me how to pick cherries
and I punched his daughter in the nose
because she was mean
Mr. Jim was good.
you cherry picker
toodles I say, so long
hear that your grave's a little warm you stickler
sing 'em all your happy song
it's today
today Sunday
by your grave.
you cherry picker
taught me so well
how to spell those red in
and
and
hey
you know she deserved that nose
splattered and swattered blood in my hands
not a nice day for your little girl
but you came to my aid instead.
you cherry picker
build that ladder well
teach me just where those boys can climb
when they've got a spell.
you are my sweet favourite neighbor of them all
of them
girls go to their parties
I don't care
cause I'm with you
still
Mr. Jim died
two weeks ago
and he taught me how to pick cherries
and I punched his daughter in the nose
because she was mean
Mr. Jim was good.
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wow, I was really hoping there was more about this song. I've always thought it's sung through the eyes of a girl who's at the funeral of a family friend who molested her (not to suggest these things did or didn't happen to Tori). He had an ongoing relationship with this young girl who was a friend of his own young daughter. When the girl punched his daughter in the nose (an outburst you would expect from an abused child), he defended his plaything, not his own daughter, hence: "you know she deserved that nose splattered and swattered blood in my hands not a nice day for your little girl but you came to my aid instead." Now she's at the funeral and bitter about the loss of her child hood + emotional trauma that still haunts her: "girls go to their parties I don't care cause I'm with you still" I think the tone is very sarcastic and the baby-voice spoken word at the end is very appropriate and in keeping with my read of the songs meaning. I'd love to hear more thoughts on this.
It's actually pretty cool sounding...and then at the end, the last paragraph is spoken...I like it. It's different.
spoken part spoils it
definately i think the song could do without that addition: i mean it gives it context but it is delivered in a way that robs the song of its seriousness
Illinois Joe, I completely agree with your analysis and to add that the girl character Tori is singing despite mostly sarcastic, there is an element of a certain love/lust she has for Mr. Jim, a feeling that he has made her a woman.