Carmelita

Down along the railroad track

I ran into my old friend Jack

He was dressed in his Sunday best

But his face was mad and his eyes was a daze



He said 'I lost Marina

And the last place that I'd seen her

She was making off

With my best friend'



I took him to the water

I spent fifty dollars

On something that would take him to the moon



Well he must have gone to heaven

Cuz just before I left him

I tried to wake him up

But he would not move



So come on Carmelita,

You drunk too much

And I can see that

Soon you're gonna need a breath of air



We'll dance across the wheat fields

There's a place I know just east of here

It wouldn't take too long to ??



We'll sleep out on the ground

And in the morning when we wake up

We'll leave town



And I picked my last tobacco leaf

Soaking wet up to my knees

Out there before the sun has (arise?)



You can have a drink of water

But don't you look at my daughter

Or I'll come down there and cut you with this knife



So come on Carmelita

You drunk too much

And I can see that

Soon you're gonna need a breath of air



We'll dance across the wheat fields

There's a place I know just east of here

It wouldn't take too long to ??



There ain't any flat, man

But if you are a black man

They'll put you on a plane

Back from where you're from



We'll sleep out on the ground

And in the morning when we wake up

We'll leave town