Ry Cooder
Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down

Dirty Chateau

I had a maid she used to come in days

Made the bed and mopped the fIoor

She didn't Iike my rowdy ways

And she ain't coming back na more

You waste all your precious time

Ltalian movies and Portuguese wine

Little round bottles all in a row

You're an undean man in a dirty chateau

Dirty chateau it's long and it's tall

Stick around we'll have a ball

You'lI get stuck and before you know

You'll be dancing around you're feeling all right

In my dirty chateau

She started Iife in the lettuce fields

Up in Salinas where the farm work is done

You go streaking by in your automobiles

You don't even know where your lettuce comes from

The short handled hoe it scarred my hands

Tell me why do they love it so

It broke mama down daddy too

Now I work for you in your dirty chateau

My friends are coming and they'd like to hear

A real sad Mexican song or two

They been drinking and they don't care

Just what you been goin' through

How bout Paloma Sin Nido

Pa Que Me Sirve la Vida

What about Pobre del Pobre

Also Lamento de un Prisionero

She used to call me borracho y perdido

Said I was loco y jodido

Buena para nada

Nunca quiero ver tu cara

But she's gone in the world somewhere

Turlock somewhere, Stockton somewhere,

Salinas somewhere, Los Angeles somewhere, I just don't know .

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