Telephone Call From Istanbul

All night long on the broken glasslivin in a medicine chestmediteromanian hotel backsprawled across a roll top deskthe monkey rode the blade on anoverhead fanthey paint the donkey blue if you pay

I got a telephone call from

Istanbulmy baby's coming home todaywill you sell me one of those if

I shave my headget me out of town is what fireball saidnever trust a man in a blue trench coatnever drive a car when you're dead

Saturday's a festival

Friday's a gemdye your hair yellowand raise your hemfollow me to beulah's ondry creek road

I got to wear the hat that my baby done sewedtake me down to buy a tuxon red rose beargot to cut a hole in the day

I got a telephone call from

Istanbulmy baby's coming home today