Linda Ronstadt - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues lyrics

written by Bob Dylan © W.B. Music (ASCAP) When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Eastertime too And your gravity fails and negativity won't pull you through Don't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue They got some hungry women there and they'll really make a mess out of you Well if you see Saint Annie please tell her thanks a lot I cannot move and my fingers they are all in a knot I don't have the strength to get up and take another shot And my best friend the doctor won't even say what it is I got Sweet Melinda, the peasants call her the goddess of gloom She speaks good English and she invites you up into her room And you're so kind and careful not to go to her too soon And she takes your voice and she leaves you howling at the moon Well up on housing project hill it's either fortune or fame You must pick one or the other though neither of them are to be what they claim And if you're looking to get silly you better go back to from where you came Because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same Now all the authorities they just stand around and boast How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms into leaving his post And picking up Angel who just arrived here from the coast Who looked so fine at first and she left looking just like a ghost Well I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff Everybody said they'd stand beside me when the game got rough But the joke was on me there was nobody even there to bluff I'm going back to New York City I do believe I've had enough