Love for Sale: No. 7

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'Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis' (1978)
--Tom Waits

Compared to some of Waits' gruff, street-wise beat poetry from the '70s -- say, 'Pasties and a G-String' -- this tune is teeming with sweet optimism. Our hooker's off the sauce and the stuff, she's found a stand-in baby daddy, and hopefully she'll be out of jail soon. Strangely, this one never charted. Happy holidays!

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Kool Kidat 3-14-2008

He looks like he is having a great dream.

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Griffat 5-05-2008

This is the best song ever written, I adore it

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Zooterat 5-07-2008

Yeah, it's optimistic...right up until the last verse, when any sense of happiness is ripped right out from under you. Merry Christmas.

Wonderful song, though.

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Ms. Jet Trashat 6-10-2009

This is the most realistic hooker story ever written as a song. Sentimentally hustling Charlie,her friend. She can't help her hooker self. Tom brings depth to the characters.

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