Hot Rod Hotel

<br>Im a porter and a night clerk at the old hot rod hotel<br><br>I clean and scrub the lobby down and thirty one rooms as well<br><br>I wax and shine their boots and shoes, I brush down their crinkeldy clothes<br><br>I meet the buses and the trains and show you to your door<br><br><br><br>Bell bottom pants brought two boys in at six fourteen last night<br><br>Two girls checked in at ten otwo and I flipped on their light<br><br>The lamrods wife looks in their doors and finds one terrible sight<br><br>Those boys and girls got bawled up in their doors and rooms last night<br><br><br><br>A bloody flood could never messed these rooms up any worse<br><br>It looked like moe had used this room to grease and breed a horse<br><br>Old gum and hairs and sticky rags, old bottles on the floors<br><br>Gobs of spit and condom rubbers on the windows, walls and doors<br><br><br><br>The lammy tried to make me clean up the crappy mess<br><br>Or else hed fire me off my job and let me starve to death<br><br>I laid aside my polish rag and downed my dusting pan<br><br>And Ive not seen the old hot rod nor that old town since then<br><br><br><br>Words: woody guthrie (1949) - music: billy bragg (1996)<br><br><br><br>Jay bennett: farfisa organ, mandolin, electric guitar<br><br>Billy bragg: acoustic guitar, vocals<br><br>Ken coomer: drums<br><br>John stirratt: electric bass<br><br>Jeff tweedy: acoustic guitar