FC
I live in a room with a green radio,
GC
Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low
FCAm
Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell
CGC
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel
AmEm
The desk clerk's a jerk, an old carnival fellow,
FC
I ask where're you from, he said Lake Isabella
FC
I told him I'd been there, but I never had
GC
He looked at the clock, and I signed the pad.
AmEm
He said, "No dogs allowed," so I bought me a fish
FC
He lives by my bed in a souvenir dish
FC
Swims 'round in circles and eats once a day
GC
And looks a lot like my ex-wife's fiance.
(CHORUS)
FC
I live in a room with a green radio,
GC
Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low
FCAm
Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell
CGC
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel
AmEm
And there's a wasteland across the highway
FC
Where the lot lizards** roam and the big diesels stay
FC
The cops ask me questions, and I tell them jokes
GC
And that fat one, he's always a-bummin' my smokes
AmEm
And the swimming pool water is Chuck Berry green
FC
And the water pipes rattle like Keith Richard's spleen
FC
The walls are blood-red, and the sheets are Velveeta
GC
And that girl in 112 (one-twelve), she goes by Juanita
AmEm
Juanita's a dancer, she does the naked ballet
FC
I keep an eye on things while she's away
FC
She spends all her money, and half of mine, too
GC
Tryin' to get high enough to get naked for you
(CHORUS)
FC
And I live in a room with a green radio,
GC
Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low
FCAm
Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell
CGC
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel
AmEm
There's an old Mexican dirge this place is named after
FC
And I heard it once in a box office disaster
FC
The Duke told his boys, said it means leave or die
G
I don't know much Spanish, but John Wayne don't lie
(CHORUS)
FC
And I live in a room with a green radio,
GC
Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low
FCAm
Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell
CGC
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel
FCAm
I'm sinkin' like a pearl in a bottle of Prell
CGC
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel