Tryin to rake in that last nights fare And a solitary sailor Who spends the facts of his life Like small change on strangers Paws his inside p-coat pocket For a welcome twenty-five cents And the last bent butt From a package of kents As he dreams of a waitress With maxwell house eyes And marmalade thighs With scrambled yellow hair
Her rhinestone-studded moniker says irene
As she wipes the wisps of Dishwater blonde from her eyes
And the texaco beacon burns on The steel-belted attendant With a ring and valve special Cryin filler up and check that oil You know it could be a distributor And it could be a coil
The early mornin final editions on the stands
And that town cryers cryin there With nickels in his hands Pigs in a blanket sixty-nine cents Eggs-roll em over and a package of kents Adam and eve on a log You can sink em damn straight Hash browns hash browns You know I cant late be
And the early dawn cracks Out a carpet of diamond Across a cash crop car lot Filled with twilight coupe devilles Leaving the town in a-keeping Of the one who is sweeping
Up the ghost of saturday night
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