Deguello Motel

	  		

   F                       C 
   I live in a room with a green radio, 
   G                       C 
   Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low 
   F                       C                Am 
   Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell 
      C                 G        C 
   In room seventeen at Deguello Motel 



Am                              Em 
The desk clerk's a jerk, an old carnival fellow, 
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I ask where're you from, he said Lake Isabella 
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I told him I'd been there, but I never had 
                            G            C 
He looked at the clock, and I signed the pad. 


Am                               Em 
He said, "No dogs allowed," so I bought me a fish 
F                       C 
He lives by my bed in a souvenir dish 
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Swims 'round in circles and eats once a day 
                           G      C 
And looks a lot like my ex-wife's fiance. 



   F                       C 
   I live in a room with a green radio, 
   G                       C 
   Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low 
   F                       C                Am 
   Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell 
      C                 G        C 
   In room seventeen at Deguello Motel 



Am                       Em 
And there's a wasteland across the highway 
F                                    C 
Where the lot lizards** roam and the big diesels stay 
F                              C 
The cops ask me questions, and I tell them jokes 
                               G           C 
And that fat one, he's always a-bummin' my smokes 


Am                             Em 
And the swimming pool water is Chuck Berry green 
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And the water pipes rattle like a pinball machine 
F                                C 
The walls are blood-red, and the sheets are Velveeta 
                                       G       C 
And that girl in 112 (one-twelve), she goes by Juanita 

Am                               Em 
Juanita's a dancer, she does the naked ballet 
F                       C 
I keep an eye on things while she's away 
F                             C 
She spends all her money, and half of mine, too 
                                 G         C 
Tryin' to get high enough to get naked for you 




         F                     C 
   And I live in a room with a green radio, 
   G                       C 
   Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low 
   F                       C                Am 
   Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell 
      C                 G        C 
   In room seventeen at Deguello Motel 



Am                                Em 
There's an old Mexican dirge this place is named after 
F                            C 
And I heard it once in a box office disaster 
F                               C 
The Duke told his boys, said it means leave or die 
                                                G                   
I don't know much Spanish, but John Wayne don't lie 




         F                     C 
   And I live in a room with a green radio, 
   G                       C 
   Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low 
   F                       C                Am 
   Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell 
      C                 G        C 
   In room seventeen at Deguello Motel 



F                             C         Am 
I'm singin' like a pearl in a bottle of Prell 
   C                 G        C 
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel