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This masterpiece from Tom Waits album Blue Valentine 1978 This tab is for a guitarist to play alongside the original try more interesting 7th and 9th chords if you can. 4/4 time [Intro] [ Verse 1]                                                               Little black girl in red dress on hot night with broken shoe Little black girl you should’ve never left home There’s probably someone still waitin’ up for you It’s cold back in Chicago but the Los Angeles street is worse All you got is twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse       [Verse 2] See that vulture in the Fleetwood with the chartreuse hood Sees you’re tryin’ to get your bearings Say hey baby which way’s the main stem Wherever 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 a left on Central he gonna throw it in reverse All you got is twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse       [Verse 3] He gonna come on just like a gentleman And oh baby you’re gonna be a little shy You say your ex-old man was a sax player he says Baby I used to play bass with Sly And you say you like his Cadillac says honey I got two or three Sweetheart you’re sure fortunate that you ran into me You’ve done a dime in the joint you figure nothin’ could be worse Than twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse [Verse 4] Got Pharoh on 8-track you start smokin’ a little boo Thinkin’ gettin’ out of Chicago was just about the best thing that’s ever happened to you You startin’ to like it already this cat seems to be cool I know a good old jailhouse in West-Hollywood be just right for you He ain’t no good Samaritan he gonna make sure he’s reimbursed A lot more than twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse [Instrumental] E x4 A x2 E x2 [Verse 5] And when the streets get hungry baby and you almost hear em growl Someones savin a place for you when the dogs begin to howl And the streets are dead they creep up and take whatever’s left on the bone And remember suckers always make mistakes when they’re far away from home Chicken in the pot whoever gets there first is gonna get themselves Twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse     [Verse 6] And the siren’s just an epilogue the cops here always get there too late They always stop for coffee on their way to the scene of the crime They always try so hard to look just like movie stars But they couldn’t catch a cold baby don’t waste your dime She’s lucky to be alive the doctor whispered to the nurse She only lost half a pint of blood twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse [Instrumental Outro] E x4 A x2 E x2 repeat instrumental to fade out Love and peace Kevin