STEAMBOAT SMILE ( Opening section ) A steamboat smile is telling She be gone for a while A blue stranger's yellin' Best keep you drunken car keys Splayed across the floor These days trains ain't whistling back To sun slashed trailer girls Buried 'long the tracks In poetry books and nineteen fifty four Diamonds stole the spotlight From the pearls in a bank heist And quarterbacks no longer white as snow This'll get ya that For a dime a baker's dozen Songs from Jimmy Durante's checkered hat Through amber window glow I'm just here to say Steamboat smile is on her way So ask the operator to transfer Your butchered call Can of corn dropped in the fifth 'Tween a quandary of Keystone Kops Must'a put some English on that ball ( Closing Section ) Over barley fields at night A murder of crows got red Their rights By a steamboat smiling seamstress After she wrestled her dreams to bed Stand straight like a block a wood Think of something that you never could Train whistles to the angels In the hoods La da da de da da
