Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)

Album: Mr. Happy Go Lucky (1997)
Charted: 92 14
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  • In a hand painted night, me and Gypsy Scotty are partners
    At the Hotel Flamingo, wearin black market shoes
    This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon
    No one wants to be lonely, no one wants to sing the blues

    She's perched like a parrot on his tuxedo shoulder
    Christ, what's she doing with him she could be dancing with me
    She stirs the ice in her glass with her elegant finger
    I want to be what she's drinking, yeah I just want to be

    I saw you first
    I'm the first one tonight
    I saw you first
    Don't that give me the right
    To move around in your heart
    Everyone was lookin
    But I saw you first

    On a moon spattered road in her parrot rebozo
    Gypsy Scotty is driving his big long yellow car
    She flies like a bird over his shoulder
    Se whispers in his ear, boy, you are my star

    But I saw you first
    I'm the first one tonight
    Yes I saw you first
    Don't that give me the right
    To move around in your heart
    Everyone was lookin'

    In the bone colored dawn, me and Gypsy Scotty are singin'
    The radio is playin, she left her shoes out in the back
    He tells me a story about some girl he knows in Kentucky
    He just made that story up, there ain't no girl like that

    But I saw you first
    I'm the first one tonight
    Yes I saw you first
    Don't that give me the right
    To move around in your heart
    Everyone was lookin
    But I saw you first
    I saw you first Writer/s: GEORGE MICHAEL GREEN, JOHN MELLENCAMP
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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