Gun Street Girl

[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.