So I was listening to Tom Waits' [album]Rain Dogs[/album] and towards the end of the song [track]Clap Hands[/track] I noticed something odd in the lyrics that I had never realized before. The last verse goes of something like this:

Shine, shine, a roosevelt dime
All the way to baltimore and running out of time
Salvation army seemed to wind up in the hole
They all went to heaven in a little row boat
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands

Going to heaven in a little rowboat reminds me of another song...Oh yeah! Radiohead's [track]Pyramid Song[/track]:

i jumped in the river and what did I see?
black-eyed angels swimming with me
a moon full of stars and astral cars
all the figures i used to see
all my lovers were there with me
all my past and futures
and we all went to heaven in a little row boat
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

Radiohead and Thom Yorke especially, are notorious for jacking other artists ideas and blending them into something all their own. Let's not forget, that's how we got rock and roll. White artists stole from the black R&B artists, mixed it with a little country and bang! rock and roll. However this seems rather blatant, if somewhat obscure. So do you think Thom Yorke lifted that line from [track]Clap Hands[/track]? Or, was it like the line from [track]Harrowdown Hill[/track]:

We think the same things at the same time...