Tom Waits - 29.00

little black girl in a red dress on a hot night with a broken shoe little black girl you shoulda never left home theres probly someone thats still waitin up for you its cold back in chicago but in los angeles its worse when all you got is $29.00 and an alligator purse i see already that vulture in the fleetwood with the shartruse 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 comeon 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 $29.00 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 nothin could be worse and you got $29.00 in an alligator purse well he got pharoh on the 8 track you start smokin a little boo you thinkin gettin 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 $29.00 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 take up what 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 29.00 and an alligator purse now the sirens just an epilog 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 $29.00 and an alligator purse