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Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (Originally Performed by Tom Waits) (Instrumental Version)
About This Song
About "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (Originally Performed by Tom Waits) (Instrumental Version)" by Backing Business
Tom Waits' tragicomic ballad is stripped to a spare, barroom instrumental. Without the rasped narration, the Christmas card becomes a crumpled, lonely artifact—piano keys like raindrops on a payphone—and the melody drifts between sentimentality and a deep, aching dread of the holiday season.