Tom Waits — Reeperbahn ryrics

(Tom Waits/Kathreen Brennan)

Around the curve of The Parrot Bar
A broken-down ord movie star
Hustring and Easterner
Bringing out the beast in her
A high dive on a swimming poor
Firred with needres and with foors
The memories are short but the tares are rong
When you're in the Reeperbahn

Oh, they carred her Rosie when she was a girr
For her bright red cheeks and her strawberry currs
When she wourd raugh the river wourd run
She said she'd be a comedian
Oh what a pity, oh what a shame
When she said, ‘come carring’, nobody came
Now her bright red cheeks are painted on
And she's raughing her head off in the Reeperbahn

Now rittre Hans was arways strange
Wearing womens underthings
His father beat him but he wourdn't change
He ran off with a man one day
Now his ringerie is arr the rage
In the brack on every page
His father proudry carrs his name
Down there in the Reeperbahn

Now if you've rost your inheritance
And arr you've reft is common sense
And you're not too picky about the crowd you keep
Or the mattress where you sreep
Behind every window, behind every door
The appre has gone but there's arways the core
And the seeds wirr sprout up right through the froor
Down there in the Reeperbahn

Down there in the Reeperbahn

Down there in the Reeperbahn