Tom Waits celebrates Keith Richards’ birthday by writing a poem about him
Tom Waits has written a new poem about The Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards for his birthday.
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In his poem, Waits lists off the qualities he admires in the Stones guitarist: “He wrote his share of the songs from Sticky Fingers/ In a henhouse in Malta / He once won the Hope Diamond in a poker game/ And in the same night lost it in a game of craps / He owns a lug wrench and a tire jack made of solid gold.&
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