There's a real sadness to this song. You set the scene by imagining a lonely Tom Waits propping up a in a bar somewhere in Midtown, Manhattan. He's on his 4th scotch and in walks the gorgeous busty flame haired Bette Midler.
Tom is smitten by her beauty straight away and thanks to the dutch courage of the whiskey, takes his heart in his hands and plucks up the courage to talk to her......The rest is Chronicled in the lyrics. She agrees to go on a date sometime and they exchange phone numbers but it doesn't work out and three years later he marries Kathleen Brennan and the rest is history.
There's a real sadness to this song. You set the scene by imagining a lonely Tom Waits propping up a in a bar somewhere in Midtown, Manhattan. He's on his 4th scotch and in walks the gorgeous busty flame haired Bette Midler.
Tom is smitten by her beauty straight away and thanks to the dutch courage of the whiskey, takes his heart in his hands and plucks up the courage to talk to her......The rest is Chronicled in the lyrics. She agrees to go on a date sometime and they exchange phone numbers but it doesn't work out and three years later he marries Kathleen Brennan and the rest is history.