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