Tom Waits has released his performance of his 1976 song, “Tom Traubert’s Blues,” for the Italian docuseries, Il Fattore Umano ( The Human Factor ), which aired earlier this year.

Waits participated in the final episode of the eight-part series, which focused on human rights violations around the world. The finale, dubbed “The Last Ride,” centered on homelessness and poverty in the American South and featured Waits reading excerpts from his poem Seeds on Hard Ground and performing “The Fall of Troy” and “Tom Traubert’s Blues.”

While the full episode has been available to watch on RaiPlay for the past few months, Waits’ striking rendition of his signature ballad is now available on YouTube. In introducing the performance, Waits noted how his song’s interpolation of the Australia

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