Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House)

Album: The Heart Of Saturday Night (1974)
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  • A cab combs the snake,
    Tryin' to rake in that last night's 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' fill'er up and check that oil
    You know it could be a distributor and it could be a coil

    The early mornin' final edition's on the stands,
    And that town cryer's 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 can't be late

    And the early dawn cracks out a carpet of diamonds
    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 Writer/s: TOM WAITS
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, JALMA MUSIC
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