Take It With Me

Phone's off the hook No one knows where we are It's a long time since I Drank champagne The ocean is blue As blue as your eyes I'm gonna take it with me When I go Old long since gone Now way back when We lived in Coney Island Ain't no good thing Ever dies I'm gonna take it with me When I go Far far away a train Whistle blows Wherever you're goin Wherever you've been Waving good bye at the end Of the day You're up and you're over And you're far away Always for you, and Forever yours It felt just like the old days We fell asleep on Beaula's porch I'm gonna take it with me When I go All broken down by The side of the road I was never more alive or Alone I've worn the faces off All the cards I'm gonna take it with me When I go Children are playing At the end of the day Strangers are singing On our lawn It's got to be more Than flesh and bone All that you've loved Is all you own In a land there's a town And in that town there's A house And in that house There's a woman And in that woman There's a heart I love I'm gonna take it With me when I go I'm gonna take it With me when I go

Take It With Me Written by Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan Performed by Anne Sofie von Otter meets Elvis Costello Produced by Elvis Costello Arranged by Elvis Costello & the Ensemble Musicians Anne Sofie von Otter - vocal Svante Henryson - cello Mats Schubert - piano Johan Lindström - pedal steel guitar Magnus Persson - vibraphone Recorded February 2000-January 2001, Atlantis Grammophon AB, Stockholm and/or Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin and/or Westside Studios, London Released March 19, 2001 Albums For The Stars, 2001 Length 3:17 First known performance:  June 6, 2001, New York, NY Last known performance:  September 19, 2016, Boston, MA      (2 known performances)

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