Deguello Motel

Chorus:
I live in room with a green radio
Curled in the womb of a 29 year low
Four walls from Heaven and one sin from hell
In room 17 at Deguello Motel

The desk clerk’s a jerk, an ole carnival fellow
I asked where he’s from he said Lake Isabella
I told him I’d been there but I never had
He looked at the clock and I signed the pad

He said no dogs allowed so I bought me a fish
He lives by my bed in a souvenir dish
Swims round in circles and eats once a day
And looks a lot like my ex-wife’s fiancé

Chorus:
I live in room with a green radio
Curled in the womb of a 29 year low
Four walls from Heaven and one sin from hell
In room 17 at Deguello Motel

There’s a wasteland across the highway
Where the lot lizards roam and the big diesels stay
The cops ask me questions and I tell ‘em jokes
And that fat one, he’s always a bummin’ my smokes

And the swimming pool water is Chuck Berry green
And the water pipes rattle like a pinball machine
The walls are blood red and the sheets are Velveeta
And that girl in 112, she goes by Juanita

Juanita’s a dancer, she does the naked ballet
I keep an eye on things while she’s away
She spends all her money and half of mine too
Trying to get high enough to get naked for you

Chorus:
I live in room with a green radio
Curled in the womb of a 29 year low
Four walls from Heaven and one sin from hell
In room 17 at Deguello Motel

There’s an ole Mexican durge this song is named after
And I heard it once in a box office disaster
The Duke told his boys, “It means leave or die”
I don’t know much Spanish but John Wayne don’t lie

Chorus:
I live in room with a green radio
Curled in the womb of a 29 year low
Four walls from Heaven and one sin from hell
In room 17 at Deguello Motel

I’m sinking like a pearl in a bottle of Prell
In room 17 at Deguello Motel