Everybody get on board. You can't get a Cadillac from the Lord. The poor man's limousine. Is the Watts Local. . It sways from side to side. But it gets you where you're going.
Hey baby, whatcha doin' tonight?. I hope I called when it's alright. Well I've got this certain case of blues. And if I see you're shining face. I know it will diffuse.
Day breaks. Slate drops. Check your hardest stare. Hands in pockets, shoulders up. Walkin' like Brando into the sun. . First Drag. On the Blacktop. Eyes shift side to side.
Bright light city gonna set my soul. Gonna set my soul on fire. Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn. So get those stakes up higher. . There's a thousand pretty women waitin' out there.
(James Achor/Eddie Nichols/Bill Ungerman). Arranged by Bill Ungerman. . Dirty neon lights, the traffic's cry. Footsteps echo on the street. The cheap but lovely chicks.
Love's the big game hunter who held the poison dart. I was game and you took aim and struck me to the heart. . Trapped in a web of love. I'm trapped in a web of love.
There you walk right in, and walk right out. You walk right in there, you walk right out. Well my baby keeps on walkin'. . Well I met this gal. She wanted to ride in my truck, zoom zoom.
One kid from Brooklyn. The other from Queens. Met on a crosstown train. They cut from class, and they both agreed. A bottle down at Coney's all they need.
(Eddie Nichols/Scott Steen/Bill Ungerman). Arranged by Bill Ungerman and Scott Steen. . Ladies and gents. Your attention please. Let's look to the flying trapeze.
Hey, moocher. See the cat on Cienega Blvd. Hey, he's the moocher. . Listen here mooch. Why you always comin' round my crib. You're borrowin' my cow boots, squeezin' my dame.
The lights are spinnin'. I gotta get myself up off the floor. My head is ringin'. Bet they think I can't take too much more. . The crowd is howlin'. Like the ocean's pounding roar.
She said please, take a long drink for me. This hard luck gal, she don't like to plead. So light my smoke.. Take a long drink for me.. . She said please, have a seat right next to me.
I don't know why. There's no sun up in that sky. It's stormy weather. Since me and my gal ain't together. Keeps rainin' all, all the time. . Life is bare.
When an irresistible force such as you. Meets an old immovable object like me. You can bet as sure as you live. Somewhere, sometime, somehow. Something's gotta give.
Oh baby, whatcha gonna do. Oh baby, whatcha gonna do. I'm sick and tired of foolin' around with you. . Wake up in the mornin' fix you somethin' to eat,.
She walks on fire,. yet I'll never know. When she's not with me. how our fever grows. To be desired and left standing cold. When she walks on fire. it pains me to know.
Salt peanuts. Salt peanuts. Salt peanuts. . Salt peanuts. Salt peanuts. Salt peanuts. Salty.
Small town beauty baby. Would-be movie queen. In '47, it seemed like heaven. Time to take it overseas. . She beat it to the island. Of rum, romance and dreams.
(Mando Dorame/Eddie Nichols). Arranged by Mando Dorame. . There's a place I know. The wise guys go that's Park's Place. Showgirls swing when the chairman sings.