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Artist/Band: Tom Waits
Lyrics for Song: $29.00
Lyrics for Album: Blue Valentine [1978]



Little black girl, red dress

Hot night with a broken shoe

Little black girl, you shoulda never left home

There's probably someone still waitin' up for you



It's cold back in Chicago

Los Angeles, it's worse when all you got is

$29.00 and an alligator purse



I see that vulture in the Fleetwood

Chartreuse hood trying to get your bearings

Say ?Hey baby, which way?s the main stem??



Where ever you say you're from

He'll say he grew up there himself

He gonna come on and make you feel

Like you grew up right next door to him



Take left on Central

Gon? throws it in reverse

All you got is $29.00 and an alligator purse



Come on like a gentleman

Oh babe, you gonna be a little shy

Say your ex old man was a sax player

He says, "Baby, I used to play bass for Sly"



Say you like his Cadillac

Says, ?Honey, I got 2 or 3?

Sweetheart, you're sure fortunate

That you ran into me



You've done a dime in the joint

You figure nothin' could be worse

$29.00 and an alligator purse



Pharaoh on the 8 track

You start smokin' little boo

Thinkin' gettin' out of Chicago is just about

The best thing that's ever happened to you



He's starting like a [Incomprehensible]

This cat seems to be cool

He says, ?Baby, I know a good ol' deal

Out in West Hollywood, he's just right for you?



He ain't no good Samaritan

He gon? make sure he's reimbursed

Lot more than $29.00 and an alligator purse



Now when the streets get hungry, baby

You almost hear them growl

Someone's setting a place for you

When the dogs begin to howl



Well, the streets are dead

They creep up and down when it was left on the pole

Remember suckers always make mistakes

When they're far away from home



Chicken in a pot

Whoever gets there first

Gonna get himself $29.00

And an alligator purse



Now the sirens just an epilogue

The cops here always get there too late

Always stop for coffee

On the way to the scene of the crime



They always try so hard

Just like movie stars

But they couldn't catch a cold

Baby, don't waste your dime



Lucky to be alive

The doctor whispered to the nurse

?She only lost a half pint of blood

$29.00 and an alligator purse?


Album Lyrics: Blue Valentine [1978]


Tom Waits
"Blue Valentine [1978]"


1. Somewhere
2. Red Shoes By The Drugstore
3. Christmas Cards From A Hooker In Minneapolis
4. Romeo Is Bleeding
5. $29.00
6. A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun