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I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
Colored
Rope
Sand
Along
Wind
Dangled
Danced

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