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The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 15, 1974, on Asylum Records. [2] The title song was written as a tribute to Jack Kerouac. [3]
"Shiver my top-sails, my Laſs, if I know a better way." "Shiver me timbers" (or "shiver my timbers" in Standard English) is an exclamation in the form of a mock oath usually attributed to the speech of pirates in works of fiction. It is employed as a literary device by authors to express shock, surprise, or annoyance.
Shiver My timbers (or My) Timbers may refer to: Shiver my timbers, an exclamation; Shiver My Timbers (1931), an Our Gang short; Shiver Me Timbers!
You Had to Be There is a live double album by the American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.It was originally released in October 1978 [2] as ABC AK-1008/2 and later re-released on ABC's successor label MCA.
Closing Time is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released on March 6, 1973, on Asylum Records.Produced and arranged by former Lovin' Spoonful member Jerry Yester, Closing Time was the first of seven of Waits' major releases by Asylum.
Divine Madness is an album by American singer Bette Midler and the Harlettes, released in 1980.It is a live recording taken from Midler's Divine Madness concert film, released the same year.
The Early Years is a two-part retrospective album series of Tom Waits songs, consisting of recordings made before Waits' debut album, Closing Time.Volume one was released in 1991 and volume two was released in 1993 on Bizarre/Straight.
"shiver my timbers" is a legitimate phrase actually found in the OED, it is the correct phrase, derived from "my timbers" as in "my goodness" (not "me goodness"). Somewhere someone started a slang variation with "me timbers", but it is not "proper" English. So we have a proper English phrase, and a slang phrase.