[00:20.53]A cab combs the snake
[00:21.74]
[00:22.71]Tryin to rake in that last nights fare
[00:27.53]And a solitary sailor
[00:29.51]Who spends the facts of his life
[00:31.72]Like small change on strangers
[00:36.95]Paws his inside p-coat pocket
[00:40.33]For a welcome twenty-five cents
[00:44.51]And the last bent butt
[00:46.13]From a package of kents
[00:47.97]As he dreams of a waitress
[00:49.78]With maxwell house eyes
[00:51.83]And marmalade thighs
[00:53.68]With scrambled yellow hair
[00:55.21]
[00:57.80]Her rhinestone-studded moniker says  irene
[01:01.24]
[01:02.85]As she wipes the wisps of
[01:05.03]Dishwater blonde from her eyes
[01:06.84]
[01:21.83]And the texaco beacon burns on
[01:26.43]The steel-belted attendant
[01:27.96]With a ring and valve special
[01:31.04]Cryin filler up and check that oil
[01:34.56]You know it could be a distributor
[01:36.22]And it could be a coil
[01:39.84]
[01:43.41]The early mornin final editions on the stands
[01:46.25]
[01:48.42]And that town cryers cryin there
[01:50.73]With nickels in his hands
[01:55.65]Pigs in a blanket sixty-nine cents
[01:59.30]Eggs-roll em over and a package of kents
[02:03.76]Adam and eve on a log
[02:05.25]You can sink em damn straight
[02:07.92]Hash browns  hash browns
[02:09.43]You know I cant late be
[02:13.57]
[02:32.77]And the early dawn cracks
[02:34.51]Out a carpet of diamond
[02:37.14]Across a cash crop car lot
[02:39.61]Filled with twilight coupe devilles
[02:43.34]Leaving the town in a-keeping
[02:47.04]Of the one who is sweeping
[02:48.81]
[02:55.07]Up the ghost of saturday night