The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)

The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)

By Tom Waits
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Play it randomly with arpeggiated chords. Tempo changes as well as dynamics changes.

       
And varied timing. Try it practice while you are "drunk as hell." And enjoy.

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Voice

  
             
The pi

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                           
  
Piano

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       
          
Bass

   
            
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5

Voice

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  
   
a no has been drink ing. My neck tie is a sleep.

  
      
         
         
        
  
Piano

           
        
  
  
Bass
 

  
           
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Voice

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And the com bo went back to New York. The

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     
    
Piano

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    
Bass
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11

Voice

 
        
juke box has to take a leak. And the car pet needs a hair

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      
    
Piano

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
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   
   
Bass

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     
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Voice

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       
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cut. And the spot light looks like a pri son break. Cause the

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      
 
Piano

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           
       
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Bass

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Voice

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      
   
tele phone is out of cig a rettes and the bal co ny is

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             
     
Piano

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               
     
Bass

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              
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  The pi
Voice

    
        
on the make. And the pi a no has been drink ing.

  
          
  
  
Piano

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         

     
Bass 
           
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  
3

      
23

Voice

  
    
a no has been drink ing. And the men us are all

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    
          
Piano


      
   
Bass         

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       
   
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  
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Voice

        

                    
freez ing. And the light man's blind in one eye. And he

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     
          
Piano

     
     
         

Bass

      
          
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29

Voice

    
   
can't see out of the oth er. And the pi ano tuner's got a

            
                 
    
    

Piano

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 
  

Bass

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          
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Voice

  
      
hear ing aid. And he showed up with his moth er. And the pi

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      
        
Piano

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       
Bass
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       
4

   
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Voice

 
   
a no has been drink ing. The pi a no has been drink ing. And the

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           
               
       
     
  
     
Piano

   
         
         
      
Bass
        

           
   
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Voice

  
      
boun cer is a Su mo wrest ler. Cream puff cas per

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  
         
Piano

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    
        

    
Bass

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             

42

Voice

   
          
milk toast. And the own er is a men tal mid get. With the

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          
  
    
Piano

 
  
         
    
Bass

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         
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Voice

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                  
I. Q. of a fence post. Cause the pi a no has been

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 
    
Piano

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                
    

Bass
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     
5

         
48

Voice

   
   
drink ing. The pi a no has been drink ing. And you

  
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      
    
Piano

             

   
           
  
Bass

              
Pause, thinking about it.

   

51

Voice

         

can't find your wai tress with a gei ger count er and she

                      
        
      
   
Piano

       
                
     
    
 
Bass


            
 

56

Voice

  
                  
hates you and your friends. And you just can't get served with

        
           
          
Piano

                        
     
  
Bass


    
           

59

Voice


           
out her. And the box off ice is drool ing. And the

            
       
   

 
  
Piano

          

          
       
       
 
 
Bass


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6

         
62

Voice

  
   
bar stools are on fi re. And the news pa pers were fool ing. And the

            

                  
     
         
Piano

                  
          
          
  
Bass

      
        
 
66

Voice

    
ash trays have re tired. Cause the pi a no has been

             
              
    
 
Piano


                       
  
    
    
     
Bass

   
                

69

Voice

   
   
drink ing. The pi a no has been drink ing. The pi a no has been


          
                   
 
   
Piano

  
             
    
 
   
      
              
  
Bass


              
7

  
73

Voice

  Not  
               
 
drink ing. Not me. Not me. me. Not

              
     
   
    
     
Piano

           

 
         

             
  
Bass

         

77



Voice

  
          
            
me. Not me.

 
     
 
Piano

        
       
 
   
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Bass