Donkey Town Lyrics - Mark Knopfler

I've been around in Donkeytown 

too long baby too long 

Checking out of Donkeytown 

So long, so long, so long 

Her pretty eyes are pretty still 

But Jim's got a kind of a squint Yeah 

I dug up my last check from out of the mine 

Now I feel like I've done my stint 

Jim got an army pension 

When he walked from the military court 

No body ever mentioned 

The medical report 

She does little things for me 

She likes to get the both of us high. Yeah 

She says I'm a tender-hearted man 

Prince charming, yeah, sure, I'm the guy 

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He likes the wrecker's dogs on chains 

and the smoke from the company fires 

diesel oil in the trucks and cranes 

And the smell of burning tires 

But I've been around in Donkeytown 

Too long, baby, too long 

Checking out of Donkeytown 

So long, so long, so long 

There's a purple heart in a silver tin 

and a grey .45 in a drawer. Yeah 

Most of the time you can drink with him 

but some other time he's just sore 

On days when she says she can't think straight 

Or she feels like she's getting the jumps 

She'll go shoot off her .38 

At cans on a Donkeytown dump 

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It was Friday late and she crossed those legs 

She told me flat out she would. Yeah 

If I could pull up my trailer pegs 

We could get away together for good 

I sure wish her the best of luck 

She's going to need it thinking of Jim 

I don't like to leave her stuck 

But she's near as bad as him 

But I've been around in Donkeytown 

too long baby too long 

Checking out of Donkeytown 

So long, so long, so long 

Checking out of Donkeytown 

So long, so long, so long