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Reeperbahn Lyrics by Tom Waits

(from the album Alice (The Original Demos))

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Reeperbahn Lyrics

Round the curve of the Parrot Bar
A broken-down old movie star
Hustling and Easterner
Filled with needles and with fools
A high dive in a swimming pool
Bringing out the beast in her
The memories are short but the tales are long
When you're in the Reeperbahn

They called her Rosie when she was a girl
For her bright red cheeks and her strawberry curls
When she would laugh the river would run
Oh what a pity, oh what a shame
Said she'd become a comedian
Now her bright red cheeks are painted on
When she said come calling, nobody came
And she's laughing her head off in the Reeperbahn

Now little Hans was always strange
His father beat him but he wouldn't change
Wearing women's underthings
In the black on every page
He ran off with a man one day
Now his lingerie is all the rage

His father proudly calls his name
Down there in the Reeperbahn
Now if you've lost your inheritance
And all you've left is common sense
And you're not too picky about the crowd you keep
Or the mattress where you sleep
The apple is gone but there's always the core
Behind every window, behind every door
Down there in the Reeperbahn
The seeds will sprout up right through the floor

Down there in the Reeperbahn

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