Pasties and a G-string Lyrics by Tom Waits

Pasties and a G-string Lyrics

    Smelling like a brewery, looking like a tramp,
    I ain't got a quarter, got a postage stamp
    Been five o'clock shadow boxing all around the town,
    Talking with the old man, sleeping on the ground
    Bazanti bootin al zootin al hoot and Al Cohn
    Sharing this apartment with a telephone pole
    And a fish-net stocking, spike-heel shoes,
    Strip tease, prick tease, car keys blues
    And the porno floor show, live nude girls,
    Dreamy and creamy and brunette curls
    Chesty Morgan and Watermelon Rose
    Raise my rent and take off all your clothes
    With trench coats, magazines, a bottle full of rum,
    She's so good, make a dead man come
    Pasties and a G-string, beer and a shot
    Portland through a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze
    Wrinkles and Cherry and Twinkie and Pinkie and Fifi live from Gay Paree
    Fanfares, rim shots, back stage, who cares, all this hot burlesque for me
    (scat)

    Cleavage, cleavage, thighs and hips
    ]From the nape of her neck to the lipstick lips
    Chopped and channeled and lowered and lewd
    And the cheater slicks and baby moons
    She's a-hot and ready, creamy and sugared
    And the band is awful and so are the tunes
    (scat)

    Crawling on her belly, and shaking like jelly,
    And I'm getting harder than Chinese algebrassieres
    And cheers from the (hmm) compendium here
    'Hey sweetheart' they're yelling for more
    You're squashing out your cigarette butts on the floor
    And I like Shelly, and you like Jane
    And what was the girl with the snakeskin's name?
    And it's an early-bird matinee, come back any day,
    Get you a little something that you can't get at home
    Get you a little something that you can't get at home
    It's pasties and a G-string, beer and a shot
    Portland through a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze
    Popcorn, front row, higher than a kite, and I'll be back tomorrow night,
    And I'll be back tomorrow night
    (scat)

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