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Grant-Lee Phillips, Robyn Hitchcock and Jon Brion
Robyn has only performed this song once, at Largo, on April 02, 1999.

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Song title and style suggestion from the audience - "All Thumbs" and a waltz

Lyrics

{Grant-Lee starts}

Better come around
Better search your crumbs
Better walk the highway
I'm all thumbs
Waiting for a car
To come along some
Brother, I'm all hungry
Standing here, all thumbs
All thumbs
All thumbs
All thumbs
All thumbs

Got out of prison
In '78
Since then I've been on the run
Walking this highway
Nine to nine
Brother, I've been all thumbs
And you know that aint no way to be
All thumbs
All thumbs
All thumbs

Don't you know
I got a few more fingers to grow
But I'm all thumbs
All thumbs

Went into the liquor store
And pulled out my gun
I said "You better give me what you got
Or it's gonna' be all thumbs"
All thumbs
All thumbs

Went into the video I...
No I don't want to go there, it's going to get too political
Hang on
It aint just thumbs, tell me
Yeah

{Robyn takes over here}

Fell through a parachute that was composed of drums
Everybody said "well, it's not made of thumbs
Not even all thumbs"
All thumbs
All thumbs

The wicker man is burning
Inside he looks glum
He's going to be ashes, not even a thumb
All thumbs
All thumbs

I got me a hairstyle
The ends of it was numb
I've been sitting on my wig
And it wasn't my thumb
All thumbs
Thumbs

{Jon takes over here}

You know my life once was great
Now I'm in the doldrums
It slipped through my fingers
Because I'm all thumbs
All thumbs

{back to Grant-Lee here}

Whoa my buddies
Whoa my chums
Come sing a verse
You know it's all thumbs
All thumbs
All thumbs

{back to Robyn here}

Norwegian sparrow
It lives in its buns
It is no one slightly even pleasant
And it has no thumbs, sadly

I said to my dead ancestors
"You only got your gums"
They said "no we don't even have that"