Rag And Bone

Album: Icky Thump (2007)
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  • (Rag and bone) rag and bone
    (Rag and bone) rag and bone

    Meg, look at this place
    What? Woo
    Well, this place is like a mansion
    It's like a mansion, look at all this stuff
    I dunno
    Look, I see something over there
    Woo, man

    Well, can't you hear us selling "rag and bone"?
    Bring out your junk and we'll give it a home
    A broken trumpet or a telephone
    Ah, come on, ah, come on, ah, come on
    Come on and give it to me

    Yeah

    Ah, come on, ah, come on, ah, come on
    Come on and give it to me

    Oh, rag and bone
    Rag and bone
    Ah, come on, ah, come on, ah, come on
    Come on and give it to me

    All of your pretty
    Your pretty little rags and bones

    Well, man, look at all this, you don't want it?
    (I could use that)
    You sure you don't want it, man? (I could use)
    Take it
    It's just things you don't want, I can use 'em
    Meg can use 'em, we can do something with 'em
    We'll make something out of 'em
    Make some money out of 'em at least

    This fits me perfect
    Give it to me
    Hey, if you ain't gonna use it, just give it to us
    We'll give it a home

    Well, have they got something shiny for me?
    Anybody got a Christmas tree?
    Can you partwith a toilet seat?
    Ah, jump up, ah, jump up, ah, jump up
    Come on and give it to me

    Rag and bone

    We wanna get it, granny, while it's hot
    You think it's trash, granny, but it's not
    Oh, we'll be taking whatever you got
    Ah, give up, ah, give up, ah, give up
    Come on and give it to me

    Woo

    All of your pretty
    Your pretty little rags and bones

    I saw some stuff in your yard are you gonna give it to us?
    Ah, Meg, don't be rude
    Or not?
    They might need it
    If you don't want it, we'll take it
    If you don't wanna give it to us, we'll keep walking by
    We'll keep going we're not tired
    Got plenty of places to go, lots of homes we ain't been to yet
    On the west side, the south-west side
    Middle east, rich house, dog house, outhouse, old folks' house
    House for unwed mothers, halfway homes, catacombs, twilight zones
    Look at what techniques turn tables to gramophones
    So take a last lick of your ice-cream cone
    And lock up what you still wanna own
    But please be kind (take your time)
    And don't rewind (it's fine)

    All of your pretty
    Your pretty little rags and bones
    Yeah
    Your pretty little rags and bones
    Ah, jump up, ah, jump up, ah, jump up
    Come on and give it to me

    Oh
    your pretty little rags and bones
    Ah, come on, ah, come on, ah, come on
    Come on and give it to us

    Yeah
    Yeah, yeah
    Oh, yeah

    Yeah
    Yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Writer/s: Jack White
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • /alix\ from Pinkerton, MiI love the part when Jacks talking about the different houses they have to go to.

    Got plenty of places to go, lots of homes we ain't been to yet.
    West side, southwest side, middle-east, rich house, dog house, outhouse, old folks house, house for unwed mothers, halfway homes, catacombs, twilight zones.

    I wonder if Jack likes the Twilight Zone?
  • Anna Mullin from Atlanta, GaI love this song and I am glad that Meg gets to talk a little in it, she really has a pretty voice. I alos like it cause it shows they still play around and it's not all buisness, it's cute!
  • Doug from Vancouver, CanadaIn a poem by Yeats called The Circus Animals Desertion the last stanza goes "A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
    Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
    Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
    Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone,
    I must lie down where all the ladders start
    In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."
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