The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines (Live)-Joni Mitchell

[ti:The Dry Cleaner From Des Moine] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:Shadows And Light CD1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:21.17]I'm down to a roll of dimes [00:23.85]I'm stalking the slot that's hot [00:25.66]I keep hearing bells all around me [00:28.10]Jingling in the lucky jackpots [00:30.47]They keep you tantalized [00:31.98]They keep you reaching for your wallet [00:33.85]Here in fools' paradise [00:35.35]I talked to a cat from des moines [00:38.04]He said he ran a cleaning plant [00:40.22]That cat was clanking with coin [00:42.48]Well he must have had a genie in a lamp [00:45.47]'Cause every time--i dropped a dime--i blew it [00:47.35]He kept ringing bells [00:48.41]Nothing to it [00:50.04]He got three oranges [00:51.73]Three lemons [00:52.35]Three cherries [00:53.04]Three plums [00:53.73]I'm losing my taste for fruit [00:55.66]Watching the dry cleaner do it [00:57.91]Like midas in a polyester suit [01:00.23]It's all luck [01:01.53]It's just luck [01:03.23]You get a little lucky and you make a little money [01:07.79] [01:21.16]I followed him down the strip [01:24.60]He picked out a booth at circus circus [01:26.41]Where the cowgirls fill the room [01:28.60]With their big balloons [01:29.47]The cleaner was pitching with purpose [01:31.23]He had dinos and pooh bears [01:32.65]And lions--pink and blue there [01:34.97]He couldn't lose there [01:38.04] [01:51.72]Des moines was stacking the chips [01:53.28]Raking off the tables [01:54.66]Ringing the bandit's bells [01:56.85]This is a story that's a drag to tell [01:58.97](in some ways) [01:59.59]Since i lost every dime [02:00.66]I laid on the line [02:01.90]But the cleaner from des moines [02:03.72]Could put a coin [02:04.60]In the door of a john [02:06.10]And get twenty for one [02:08.03]It's just luck [00:01.38]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------