Puttin’ on the Riiiiiiitz!
Put on your red dress baby,
Honey, were going out tonight…
Put on your high heel sneakers,
Throw a wig hat on your head…
Fee, fee, fi, fi, fo-fo, fum.
Lookin’ mighty nice, here she comes.
Wearin’ her wig hat and shades to match,
Her high-heel shoes and an alligator hat,
Wearin’ pearls and diamond rings,
She’s got bracelets on her fingers, now, and everything.
You’re nobody’s sweetheart now,
‘Cause nobody wants you, somehow;
Fancy hose, silken gown,
You’d be out of place in your own home town!
When you walk down that old avenue, oh-ho,
I just can’t believe that it’s you!
Painted lips, painted eyes,
Wearin’ a bird of paradise!
Well it all seems wrong somehow,
But you’re nobody’s sweetheart now.
You’ve painted up your lips
And rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby are you contemplating
Going out somewhere
The shadow on the wall
Tells me the sun is going down
Oh Ruby
Don’t take your love to town
You be nice to the gentlemens, Fancy…
They’ll be nice to you…
Picked up a boy just south of mobile
Gave him a ride, filled him with a hot meal
I was sixteen, he was twenty-one
Rode with us to memphis
And papa woulda shot him if he knew what hed done
I’m the friendly stranger in the black sedan
Won’t you hop inside my car?
You’re 16,
You’re beautiful,
And you’re mine…
Sixteen candles make a lovely light
But not as bright as your eyes tonight
Well she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked
Was way beyond compare
So how could I dance with another,
Oh, when I saw her standing there
How old are you, my pretty fair maid? How old are you, my honey?
She answered me right cheerfully, I’m seventeen come Sunday.
Will you take a man, my pretty fair maid? Will you take a man, my honey?
She answered me right cheerfully, I darst not for my mummy.
But if you come round to my mummy’s house, when the moon shines bright and clearly,
I will come down and let you in, and my mummy shall not hear me.
If I were a carpenter,
And you were a lady,
Would marry me anyway?
Would have my baby?
Lady, I’m your knight in shining armor and I love you,
You have made me what I am and I am yours,
My love, there’s so many ways I want to say “I love you,”
Let me hold you in my arms forever more.
Mmm yes, you could be mine, tonight and every night
I will be your knight in shining armor
Coming to your emotional rescue
You will be mine, you will be mine, all mine
You will be mine, you will be mine, all mine
I will be your knight in shining armor
Riding across the desert on a fine Arab charger
I’m on the corner, waiting for a light to come on
That’s when I know that you’re alone
It’s cold in the desert, water never sees the ground
Special unspoken without sound
Standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona,
Such a fine sight to see,
It’s a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford,
Slowing down to take a look at me…
Well, I’m standing on the corner of Lafayette
State of Louisiana
Wondering where a city boy could go
To get a little conversation
Drink a little red wine
Catch a little bit of those Cajun girls
Dancing to Zydeco
Down on the corner, out in the street
Willy and the Poorboys are playin’
Bring a nickel; tap your feet
Brother you can’t go to jail for what you’re thinking
Or for that woo look in your eye
Standing on the corner watching all the girls
Watching all the girls, watching all the girls go by