Leopardskin Limousines
Joe Strummer
Noontime the lunchstand tilts
Its you baby walking in with your stilts
You don't have to eat here no more
Cos the sauerkrats been on the dog-bowl floor
They made an old film of this
It shows in Hindu out on Air Pacif
Shoulda seen it coming 'bout a mile away
Especially when you dont hear no harmonica play
What you can see is something you saw
When you were a little girl
Some picture passed by the Hays Commission
About a prairie and a Kansas whirl
Its true I didn't have a part in it
I was working out at Disneyworld
Dressing like a duck, not giving a fuck
Baby you can dream its a pearl
People gonna wanna Xerox you baby
Its a good thing you ain't a Chick-a-Saw
Or your soul would take the overnight train
To Pittsburg calling Baltimore
People gonna wanna Xerox you baby
What will it do to your mind?
Hang gliding off the Grand Canyon
In a Coney Island for the blind
With me, it'd be Charlie Parker, Chevys
And late night bar room brawls
With real or imaginary friends and enemies
Who strike their heads when they fall
On the chassis of a classic Bull Nose special
That adorned our livingroom wall
Nobody'd be disappointed, if you're the one they wanted
Blazing out across the waterfall
People gonna wanna Xerox you baby
They got a quota to fill
Got some cat named Juliean
And a Jap in a pad on the top of the hill
People gonna wanna Xerox you baby
Its a good thing you aint a Chick-a-Saw
Or your soul'd take the overnight train
To Pittsburg calling Baltimore
Suppose I should drag my stuff on out
But I don't like the memories
Found a pint of brandy on top of hte fridge
And it's working like an anti-freeze
So California is running short of water, oh
The magazine turns in the breeze
It's the bargain of a lifetime dreaming of gold
Baby look in the trees
It's your Chinese year of the animal
And it must be one that preens
Those firecrackers going down the hill
Signify the end of our dreams
It's gonna be so beautiful
In those Leopardskin Limousines
When they spread you out in white
All over Harpers and Queens.