$29.00

<br>little black girl in a red dress<br>on a hot night with a broken shoe<br>little black girl you shoulda never left home<br>theres probly someone thats still waitin up for you<br>its cold back in chicago<br>but in los angeles its worse<br>when all you got is $29.00 and an alligator purse<br><br>i see already that vulture in the fleetwood<br>with the shartruse hood<br>can see you`re trying to get your bearings<br>and you say hey which ways the main stem<br>and where ever you say you`re from<br>he`ll say he grew up there himself<br>and he`ll comeon and make you feel<br>like you grew up right next door to him<br>and you say take a left on central<br>and he throws it in reverse<br>cause you only got $29.00 and an alligator purse<br><br>and he`ll come on like a gentleman<br>and you`ll be a little shy<br>you say your ex old man was a sax player<br>he`ll say baby i used to play bass for sly<br>and you say you like his cadillac, say honey i got 2 or 3<br>he`ll say sweetheart you`re sure fortunate<br>that you ran into me<br>when you`ve done a dime in the joint<br>you figure nothin could be worse<br>and you got $29.00 in an alligator purse<br><br>well he got pharoh on the 8 track<br>you start smokin a little boo<br>you thinkin gettin out of chicago was the<br>best thing ever happened to you<br>but he ain`t no good samaritan<br>he`ll make sure he`s reimbursed<br>lot more than $29.00 and an alligator purse<br><br>now the sirens just an epilog<br>the cops always get there to late<br>they always stop for coffee on the way to the scene of the<br>crime<br>they always try so hard to look like movie stars<br>they couldnt catch a cold<br>you only wasting your dime<br>and she`s lucky to be alive<br>the doctor whispered to the nurse<br>she only lost a 1/2 pint of blood<br>$29.00 and an alligator purse