Roger Alan Wade - Deguello motel

^FI live in a room with a ^Cgreen radio, ^GCurled in the womb of a ^Ctwenty-nine year low ^FFour walls from heaven, ^Cand one sin from ^Amhell In ^Croom seventeen at ^GDeguello ^CMotel

^AmThe desk clerk's a jerk, an old ^Emcarnival fellow, ^FI ask where're you from, he said ^CLake Isabella ^FI told him I'd been there, but I never ^Chad He looked at the clock, and ^GI signed the ^Cpad.

^AmHe said, "No dogs allowed," so I ^Embought me a fish ^FHe lives by my bed in a ^Csouvenir dish ^FSwims 'round in circles and ^Ceats once a day And looks a lot like my ex-^Gwife's ^Cfiance.

^FI live in a room with a ^Cgreen radio, ^GCurled in the womb of a ^Ctwenty-nine year low ^FFour walls from heaven, ^Cand one sin from ^Amhell In ^Croom seventeen at ^GDeguello ^CMotel

^AmAnd there's a wasteland a^Emcross the highway ^FWhere the lot lizards** roam and the ^Cbig diesels stay ^FThe cops ask me questions, and ^CI tell them jokes And that fat one, he's always a^G-bummin' my ^Csmokes

^AmAnd the swimming pool water is ^EmChuck Berry green ^FAnd the water pipes rattle like Ke^Cith Richard's spleen ^FThe walls are blood-red, and the ^Csheets are Velveeta And that girl in 112 (one-twelve), she ^Ggoes by ^CJuanita

^AmJuanita's a dancer, she does the ^Emnaked ballet ^FI keep an eye on things ^Cwhile she's away ^FShe spends all her money, and ^Chalf of mine, too Tryin' to get high enough to get ^Gnaked for ^Cyou

And I ^Flive in a room with a ^Cgreen radio, ^GCurled in the womb of a ^Ctwenty-nine year low ^FFour walls from heaven, ^Cand one sin from ^Amhell In ^Croom seventeen at ^GDeguello ^CMotel

^AmThere's an old Mexican dirge this ^Emplace is named after ^FAnd I heard it once in a box ^Coffice disaster ^FThe Duke told his boys, said it ^Cmeans leave or die I don't know much Spanish, but John Wayne don't ^Glie

And I ^Flive in a room with a ^Cgreen radio, ^GCurled in the womb of a ^Ctwenty-nine year low ^FFour walls from heaven, ^Cand one sin from ^Amhell In ^Croom seventeen at ^GDeguello ^CMotel

^FI'm sinkin' like a pearl in a ^Cbottle of ^AmPrell In ^Croom seventeen at ^GDeguello ^CMotel