
Date of issue: 31.12.1984
Record label: The Island Def Jam
Song language: English
Gun Street Girl |
Falling James in the Tahoe mud |
Stick around to tell us all the tale |
He fell in love with a Gun Street Girl and |
Now he’s dancing in the Birmingham jail |
Dancing in the Birmingham jail. |
Took a 100 dollars off a slaughterhouse Joe |
Brought a bran' new michigan 20 gauge |
Got all liquored up on that road house corn, |
Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow corvette |
Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow corvette. |
Bought a second hand Nova from a Cuban Chinese |
Dyed his hair in the bathroom of a Texaco |
With a pawnshop radio, quarter past 4 |
Well, he left Waukegan at the slammin' of the door |
He left Waukegan at the slammin' of the door |
Chorus: |
I said John, John he’s long gone |
Gone to Indiana |
Ain’t never coming home |
I said John, John he’s long gone |
Gone to Indiana, ain’t never coming home. |
Sitting in a sycamore in St. John’s Wood |
Soakin' day old bread in kerosene |
He was blue as a robin’s egg brown as a hog |
Stayin' out of circulation till the dogs get tired |
Stayin' out of circulation till the dogs get tired |
Shadow fixed the toilet with an old trombone |
He never got up in the morning on a Saturday |
Sittin' by the Erie with a bull whipped dog |
Tellin' everyone he saw |
They went thatta way |
Tellin' everyone he saw |
They went thatta way. |
Now the rain’s like gravel on an old tin roof |
And the Burlinton Northern’s pullin' out of the world |
With a head full of bourbon and a dream in the straw. |
And a Gun Street Girl was the cause of it all |
A Gun Street Girl was the cause of it all. |
Riding in the shadow by the St. Joe Ridge |
He heard the click clack tappin' of a blind man’s cane |
Pullin' into Baker on a New Year’s Eve |
With one eye on the pistol the other on the door |
With one eye on the pistol the other on the door. |
Miss Charlotte took her satchel down to King Fish Row |
And he smuggled in a bran' new pair of alligator shoes. |
With her fireman’s raincoat and her long yellow hair, well |
They tired her to a tree with a skinny millionaire |
They tired her to a tree with a skinny millionaire. |
Chorus: |
I said John, John he’s long gone |
Gone to Indiana |
Ain’t never coming home |
I said John, John he’s long gone |
Gone to Indiana, ain’t never coming home |
Bangin' on a table with an old tin cup |
Sing I’ll never kiss a Gun Street Girl again, |
I’ll never kiss a Gun Street Girl again. |
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