Charles Bukowski - Shot of Red-Eye lyrics

I used to hold my social security card
Up in the air he told me
But I was so small they couldn't see it
All those big guys around

You mean the place with the
Big green screen? I asked
Yeah well, anyhow, I finally got on
The other day
Picking tomatoes, and Jesus Christ
I couldn't get anywhere
It was too hot, too hot
And I couldn't get anything in my sack
So I layed under the truck
In the shade and drank wine i didn't make a
Dime

Have a drink, I said

Sure, he said

2 big women came in and i mean BIG
And they sat next to us

Shot of red-eye, one of them
Said to the bartender

Likewise, said the other

They pulled their dresses up
Around their hips and swung their legs
Um, umm i think I'm going mad, I told
My friend from the tomato fields

Jesus, he said, Jesus and Mary, I can't
Believe what I see

It's all there, I said

You a fighter? the one next to me asked

No, I said

What happened to your face?

Automobile accident on the San Berdo
Freeway some drunk jumped the divider i was
The drunk

How old are you, daddy?

Old enough to slice the melon, I said
Tapping my cigar ashes into my
Beer to give me strength
Can you buy a melon? she asked

Have you ever been chased
Across the Mojave and raped?

No, she said

I pulled out my last 20
And with an old man's
Virile abandon ordered 4 drinks

Both girls smiled and pulled their dresses
Higher, if possible

Who's your friend? they asked

This is Lord Chesterfield, I told them

Pleased to meetcha, they said

Hello, bitches, he answered

We walked through the 3rd street tunnel
To a green hotel, the girls had a key

There was one bed and we all got
In i don't know who got who

The next morning my friend and I
Were down at the Farm Labor Market
On San Pedro Street
Holding up and waving our social
Security cards

They couldn't see his

I was the last one on the
Truck out a big woman stood
Up against me she smelled like port wine

Honey, she asked, whatever happened to your
Face?

Fair grounds a dancing bear who didn't

Bullshit, she said

Maybe so, I said, but get your hand out
From around my balls, everybody's looking

When we got to the fields the sun was
Really up and the world
Looked terrible