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Gun Street Girl
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Tom Waits
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Falling James in the Tahoe mud
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Stick around to tell us all the tail
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He fell in love with a Gun Street Girl and
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Now he's danced in the Birmingham jail.
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Took a 100 dollars off a slaughterhouse Joe
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Brought a bran' new michigan 20 gauge
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Got all liquored up on that road house corn,
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Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow corvette
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Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow corvette.
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Brought a second hand Nova from a Cuban Chinese
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Dyed his hair in the bathroom of Texaco
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With a pawnshop radio, quarter past 4
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Well, he left Waukegan at the slammin' of the door
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He left Waukegan at the slammin' of the door
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[Chorus:]
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I said John, John he's long gone
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Gone to Indiana
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Ain't never coming home
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I said John, John he's long gone
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Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home.
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Sitting in a sycamore in St. John's Wood
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Soaking' day old bread in kerosene
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He was blue as a robin's egg brown as a hog
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Stayin' out of circulation till the dogs get tire
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Stayin' out of circulation till the dogs get tired
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Shadow fixed the toilet with an old trombone
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He never got up in the morning on a Saturday
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Sittin' by the Erie with a bull whipped dog
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Tellin' everyone he saw
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They went thatta way
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Tellin' everyone he saw
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They went thatta way.
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Now the rain's like gravel on old tin roof
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And the Burlinton Northern's pullin' out of the world
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With a head full of bourbon and a dream in the straw.
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And a Gun Street Girl was the cause of it all.
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Riding in the shadow by the St. Joe Ridge
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He heard the click clack tappin' of a blind man's cane
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Pullin' into Baker on New Year's Eve
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With one eye on the pistol the other on the door,
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With one eye on the pistol the other on the door.
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Miss Charlotte took her satchel down to King Row
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And the smuggled in a bran' new pair of alligator shoes.
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With her fireman's raincoat and her long yellow hair, well
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They tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire,
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They tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire.
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[Chorus]
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I said John, John he's long gone
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Gone to Indiana
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Ain't never coming home
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I said John, John he's long gone
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Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home.
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Bangin' on a table with an old tin cup
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Sing I'll never kiss a Gun Street Girl again,
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I'll never kiss a Gun Street Girl again.
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[Repeat chorus]
Tom Waits - Gun Street Girl
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