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Tom Waits
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little black girl in a red dress
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on a hot night with a broken shoe
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little black girl you shoulda never left home
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theres probly someone thats still waitin up for you
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its cold back in chicago
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but in los angeles its worse
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when all you got is $29.00 and an alligator purse
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i see already that vulture in the fleetwood
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with the shartruse 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 comeon 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
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and he throws it in reverse
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cause you only got $29.00 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 nothin could be worse
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and you got $29.00 in an alligator purse
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well he got pharoh on the 8 track
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you start smokin a little boo
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you thinkin gettin out of chicago was the
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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 $29.00 and an alligator purse
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now the sirens just an epilog
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the cops always get there to late
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they always stop for coffee on the way to the scene of the
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crime
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they always try so hard to look like movie stars
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they couldnt catch a cold
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you only wasting your dime
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and she's lucky to be alive
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the doctor whispered to the nurse
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she only lost a 1/2 pint of blood
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$29.00 and an alligator purse
Tom Waits - "Hold On"
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