Waits Tom - "$29 00" lyrics

little black girl in a red dress on a hot night with a broken shoe theres probly someone thats still waitin up for you little black girl you shoulda never left home its cold back in chicago when all you got is $29.00 and an alligator purse but in los angeles its worse i see already that vulture in the fleetwood with the shartruse hood and you say hey which ways the main stem can see you're trying to get your bearings he'll say he grew up there himself and where ever you say you're from and he'll comeon and make you feel like you grew up right next door to him and you say take a left on central and he throws it in reverse cause you only got $29.00 and an alligator purse and he'll come on like a gentleman and you'll be a little shy you say your ex old man was a sax player and you say you like his cadillac, say honey i got 2 or 3 he'll say baby i used to play bass for sly when you've done a dime in the joint he'll say sweetheart you're sure fortunate that you ran into me you figure nothin could be worse and you got $29.00 in an alligator purse well he got pharoh on the 8 track you start smokin a little boo you thinkin gettin out of chicago was the he'll make sure he's reimbursed best thing ever happened to you but he ain't no good samaritan lot more than $29.00 and an alligator purse the cops always get there to late now the sirens just an epilog they always stop for coffee on the way to the scene of the crime they always try so hard to look like movie stars you only wasting your dime they couldnt catch a cold and she's lucky to be alive the doctor whispered to the nurse she only lost a 1/2 pint of blood $29.00 and an alligator purse