Gun Street Girl - Tom Waits

[00:08]Falling James in the Tahoe mud
[00:12]Stick around to tell us all the tale
[00:17]He fell in love with a Gun Street Girl
[00:23]And now he's danced in the Birmingham jail.
[00:33]Took a 100 dollars off a slaughterhouse Joe
[00:36]Brought a bran' new michigan 20 gauge
[00:41]Got all liquored up on that road house corn,
[00:47]Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow corvette
[00:51]A hole in the hood of a yellow corvette.
[00:59]He brought a second hand Nova from a Cuban Chinese
[01:02]Dyed his hair in the bathroom of Texaco
[01:07]With a pawnshop radio, quarter past 4
[01:12]Well, he left Waukegan at the slammin' of the door
[01:16]He left Waukegan at the slammin' of the door
[01:19]I said John, John he's long gone
[01:23]Gone to Indiana
[01:25]Ain't never coming home
[01:26]I said John, John he's long gone
[01:30]Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home.
[01:36]They sitting in a sycamore in St. John's Wood
[01:40]Soaking' day old bread in kerosene
[01:46]He was blue as a robin's egg brown as a hog
[01:51]Stayin' out of circulation till the dogs get tire
[01:56]Out of circulation till the dogs get tired
[02:01]Shadow fixed the toilet with an old trombone
[02:05]He never got up in the morning on a Saturday
[02:10]Sittin' by the Erie with a bull whipped dog
[02:16]Tellin' everyone he saw they went thatta way
[02:20]Boy, tellin' everyone he saw they went thatta way.
[02:25]Now the rain's like gravel on old tin roof
[02:29]And the Burlinton Northern's pullin' out of the world
[02:35]With a head full of bourbon and a dream in the straw.
[02:41]And a Gun Street Girl was the cause of it all.
[02:50]Riding in the shadow by the St. Joe Ridge
[02:54]He heard the click clack tappin' of a blind man's cane
[03:00]He was pullin' into Baker on New Year's Eve
[03:04]With one eye on the pistol the other on the door,
[03:07]One eye on the pistol the other on the door.
[03:13]Miss Charlotte took her satchel down to King Row
[03:17]And the smuggled in a bran' new pair of alligator shoes.
[03:22]With her fireman's raincoat and her long yellow hair, well
[03:28]They tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire,
[03:33]Tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire.
[03:36]I said John, John he's long gone
[03:41]Gone to Indiana ain't never coming home
[03:43]I said John, John he's long gone
[03:48]Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home.
[03:51]Bangin' on a table with an old tin cup
[03:59]Sing I'll never kiss a Gun Street Girl again,
[04:02]I'll never kiss a Gun Street Girl again.