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Intro SOL/RE/DO/RE (x4)
SOL RE DO RE
They dropped a dime on the girl in the parking lot
SOL RE DO RE
Who was looking for a man of steel
SOL RE DO RE
Who would fill up her nights with forget-me-nots
SOL RE DO RE
And a dream no one else could reveal
SOL RE DO RE
Her new man said to meet him at eight
SOL RE DO RE
She came in dressed to the nines
SOL RE DO RE
But by ten it was clear he was more than late
SOL RE DO RE
And she just wouldn't take it this time
MIm RE
The bartender said she had had enough
SOL DO
That he'd call a cab to take her somewhere
MIm RE
But she wasn't a stranger to loneliness
SOL DO
She had grown up and spent her life there
CHORUS
SOL RE
Up until then, up until then
DO MIm
It happened over and over again
SOL RE DO RE
Up until then, up until then, up until then
SOL RE DO RE
Well practice had increased her tolerance
SOL RE DO RE
And she had hardly eaten all day
SOL RE DO RE
She was all hyped up on her new romance
SOL RE DO RE
But she drank in the usual way
SOL RE DO RE
She stepped out to breathe and to dry her eyes
SOL RE DO RE
To check her machine just in case
SOL RE DO RE
He had called to excuse or apologize
SOL RE DO RE
When she saw his unpenitent face
MIm RE
He approached with a girl she had seen before
SOL DO
A bimbo up from Raspberry Street
MIm RE
When he saw her he laughed and so did the whore
SOL DO
They dropped a ten dollar bill at their feet
CHORUS
[INSTRUMENTAL BREAK: G/D/C/D (x2)]
SOL RE DO RE
She was small he was tall but she blocked his path
SOL RE DO RE
She explained in unprintable words
SOL RE DO RE
The reason she seized him so full of wrath
SOL RE DO RE
That more than half of the neighborhood heard
SOL RE DO RE
She sprayed him with mace from her pocketbook
SOL RE DO RE
And then kicked in his personal zones
SOL RE DO RE
Her high heels would ruin his perfect looks
SOL RE DO RE
She left a couple of unbroken bones
MIm RE
Well the bimbo she ran in to get the cops
SOL DO
But the owner had called from the bar
MIm RE
It took two cars with dogs just to make her stop
SOL DO
I'm told that's how some women are
CHORUS
SOL RE DO RE
They dropped a dime on the girl in the parking lot
SOL RE DO RE
But she would suffer in no permanent way
SOL RE DO RE
She spent thirty nights on a county cot
SOL RE DO RE
And she's regarded with fear till this day
SOL RE
Up until then, but never again
DO MIm
It happened over and over again
SOL RE DO RE
Up until then, up until then, up until then
MIm RE
Now she's tending bar where the Pagans
used to meet
DO
And he's living with that bimbo up on
RE SOL
Raspberry Street
Outro: G/D/C/D [repeat to fade]
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