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Tom Waits( Thomas Alan Waits )
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Twenty Nine Dollars
Lyricist:Tom Waits
Little black girl in a red dress on a hot night with a broken shoe Little black girl you shoulda never left home There's probably someone that's still waiting up for you It's cold back in Chicago but in Los Angeles it's worse When all you got is twenty nine dollars and an alligator purse
I see already that vulture in the fleet wood With the chartreuse hood Can see you're trying to get your bearings And you say, 'Hey, which ways the main stem?' And where ever you say you're from
He'll say he grew up there himself And he'll come on and make you feel Like you grew up right next door to him And you say take a left on central and he throws it in reverse 'Cause you only got twenty nine dollars and an alligator purse
And he'll come on like a gentleman And you'll be a little shy You say your ex old man was a sax player He'll say, 'Baby, I used to play bass for Sly' And you say you like his Cadillac, say honey, I got 2 or 3
He'll say sweetheart you're sure fortunate That you ran into me When you've done a dime in the joint You figure nothing could be worse And you got twenty nine dollars in an alligator purse
Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Well, he got Pharaoh on the 8 track You start smoking a little boo You thinking getting out of Chicago Was the best thing ever happened to you But he ain't no good Samaritan He'll make sure he's reimbursed Lot more than twenty nine dollars and an alligator purse
Now when the streets get hungry, baby You can almost hear them growl Someone's setting a place for you When the dogs begin to howl
Well, the streets are dead They creep up and [unverified]but it was left on the pole They make suckers always make mistakes When they're far away from home Chicken in a pot, whoever gets their first Gonna get himself twenty nine dollars and an alligator purse
Now the sirens just an epilogue The cops always get there too late They always stop for coffee On the way to the scene of the crime They always try so hard to look like movie stars
They couldn't catch a cold You only wasting your dime and she's lucky to be alive The doctor whispered to the nurse she only lost A 1/2 pint of blood twenty nine dollars and an alligator purse
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