Take It with Me
Track fifteen of Mule Variations, with Waits at the piano and Greg Cohen on bass.
Tom Waits, from Mule Variations (1999)
Waits and Kathleen Brennan wrote it for Mule Variations, recorded in 1998 at Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, California, produced by Brennan and Waits with Jacquire King and Oz Fritz engineering and mixing. On the track Waits sings and plays piano and Greg Cohen plays bass. It runs 4:24 and was not a single. American Songwriter reads it as a meditation on the humble milestones of life that mean the most when it's all over, and connects a champagne line to the last words of Anton Chekhov.
Waits sang it second in the April 6, 2022 tribute I'll Be Seeing You: A Celebration of Hal Willner at St. Ann's Warehouse in New York, according to setlist.fm. Angie McMahon covered it on Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits (Dualtone, November 22, 2019, produced by Warren Zanes), where it is track five at 4:06. We found no video.
On stage
- 2022-04-06, St. Ann's Warehouse, New York A tribute to Hal Willner.
Covers and versions
- Angie McMahon (2019) On Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits.
More songs by Tom Waits
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen), Heartattack and Vine, Jersey Girl, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Downtown Train, Ol' '55, Step Right Up, Diamonds on My Windshield
Sources
- Mule Variations, Wikipedia
- Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits, Wikipedia
- Tom Waits setlists, setlist.fm