This version of Eyeball Kid was released by Tom Waits in 1999.
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Well Zenora Bariella
And Coriander Pyle
They had sixteen children
In the usual style
They had a curio museum
And they had no guile
All they ever wanted
Was a show biz child
So on the 7th of Dec. 1949
They got what
They’d been wishing for
All of the time
He grew up in a trailer
By the time he was 9
He rolled off to join
The circus… telling fortunes
On the side
Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid
Well the first time I saw him
Was a Saigon jail
Cost me 27 dollars
Just to go his bail
I said your name will
Be in lights…
And that’s no doubt
But you got to have
A manager that’s what
It’s all about
People would point
People would stare
I’ll always be here
To protect you and to
Cut down on the glare
I know you can’t speak
I know you can’t sign
So cry right here on
The dotted line
Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid
Well he was born with out a body
Not even a brow
I made the kid a promise
I made the kid a vow
He’s not conventionally handsome
He’ll never be tall
He said “all you got to do is
Book me into Carnegie Hall”
Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid
He’s just a little bitty thing
He’s just a little guy
But women go crazy
For the big blue eye
They say how does he
Dream? How does he think
When he can’t ever speak
And he can’t ever blink?
I said Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid
Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid
Give it up and throw me down
A couple of quic
Everybody wants to see
The Eyeball kid
How dies he dream
How does he think
When he can’t even speak
And he can’t even blink
We are all lost in the
Wilderness we’re as
Blind as can be
He came down to teach us
How to really see
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
So give it up and throw
Me down a couple of quid
Everybody wants to see
The Eyeball kid
Eyeball kid
Eyeball kid
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