Chords for Tom Waits Interview Banned From The YMCA.

Yes, he's a Grammy-winning artist
and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
His latest album, Badass Me, is available now.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Tom Waits.
-♪ [E] Wait, wait, [B] wait for a hundred years ♪
-♪ Hold back my [A] tears ♪
[E] -♪ Any [C#m] longer, come back ♪
-♪ I can't [A] wait, wait for [B] a hundred years _ ♪
[N] _ _ _ _ Please, thank you for being here.
Have a seat.
What do you think of the set?
What do you feel?
I feel good, yeah.
I was told this is all your furniture from home.
Yeah.
This is.
Yeah, from my childhood home, actually.
That's where Mama fed me the Bubba.
Oh, yeah.
Are you nervous going anywhere without your furniture?
Yeah, yeah.
I travel with my furniture.
And you, Halter?
I'm like that.
Oh, yeah, you're like that, as well?
Thank you for coming on our show.
I appreciate it.
And thank you for coming to New York.
I know you're out in California.
You're in New York.
You keeping busy here in New York?
Busy.
Well, busy's a relative term.
You don't have to be busy in New York,
because New York is busy.
_ And you can just kind of lay back on it,
and it'll make you.
It'll make you busy.
But, you know, I realize in New York, you know,
that the only people qualified to run the country
are cutting hair and driving cabs.
Yeah.
Isn't that amazing?
I agree with you.
I absolutely agree with that. _ _ _
You used to obviously live in New York.
Do you still [D] have a place here?
I [E] don't.
No.
But I [N] am, you know, one of the sad things was that I had,
I was refused membership to the McBurney Y when I was here.
Yeah, and that's what made you leave New York.
They didn't let you in the YMCA.
Just hurt.
It really hurt, yeah.
I don't know if you've heard, but it's fun to stay at the YMCA.
I haven't heard that.
That's why I was there.
I couldn't leave.
Wait, are you the Indian?
I was the motorcycle cop.
It's weird we never met.
It's weird we never met.
Exactly.
Yeah.
But you're staying at a hotel now?
Well, I'm staying at the, you know, it's weird.
They don't tell you about the Sheraton, you know.
Oh, the Sheraton.
The key word is share.
They ask you to share a room with another family.
Is that right?
_ I did not know that when you go to a Sheraton.
Is that true?
Well, I got a dentist
and his lovely family.
_ That's a good deal.
It's more cramped, but it's half the price.
Oh, [F] it's worth the [D#] deal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got some dental work, though.
Is that right?
You don't look like you're in pain.
It's still good.
Congrats on being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of [N] Fame.
Make it up.
_ You deserve it.
You deserve it.
Well, the weird thing about that,
when I heard that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame,
I said, Hall of Fame?
I said, how long do we have to wait out here in the hall?
My wife said, don't say that.
You don't want to just hang out in the hall all the time.
There's got to be a room somewhere.
You want to be in the room of fame.
I want to get a room.
The Rock and Roll Room of Fame.
Come on, induct this man.
_ Deserves to be in it.
You got a new record, Bad As Me.
Look at this guy right there.
Oh, I love it.
Right there.
Bad As Me.
It's a fantastic record.
It got on.
There's a website called Metacritic.
And they gave you the highest.
That's for doctors.
It is.
That's for dentists.
Ask your dentist about that.
Your roommate will love that.
But they gave you the highest rating of 2011 as albums.
Yeah, they gave it the highest rating.
It was a great one. _ _
When you're doing a song for us tonight, I love this song.
And I heard you rehearsing when you're talking to the band.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And you don't just go, hey, can you play that louder?
Or, you know, can you play that?
Just give a little.
You go like, you yell phrases at people.
Well, sometimes it's body language.
You know, it's something you're trying to communicate.
You know, and musical notation is so limited.
There's not a symbol for every feeling.
You know, it's really rather general when you think about it
because, you know, you can have something in there
that you want to say to them,
but you're not able to represent it in musical notation.
So you have to say it to them.
Like giving direction.
Yeah.
You're like giving them direction. Like, uh_
What were you yelling at?
I was saying, play like a plumber in a leotard.
Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
That is exactly.
That was [D#] the one.
Yeah.
Play it like a plumber in a leotard.
The guy was like, [B] huh?
_ They know me.
They know what that means.
Yeah, yeah.
What did you say?
Play it like [F#] a_
Oh, [N] like you have a wasp in your underwear.
Play it like a rodeo clown with no socks.
There, you see?
Yeah, yeah.
You know how to talk to them.
Yeah, yeah.
_ _ It was unbelievable.
But boy, oh, boy, is it fun.
I just got to say on behalf of all the fans,
gosh, are you just a great writer, performer, singer.
Thank you for every damn thing you do.
We love you. _
_ You're going to play us a track off the album,
Bad As Me.
Tom Waits, everybody, is going to perform when we get back. _ _ _ _