Sweet Little Lou

from Letters In The Dirt by Chuck Brodsky

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She came all the way from Jonestown, she was just a little girl
Ended up in California for to make it in this world
She left behind believers, they were onto harder stuff
Couldn’t get herself to swallow what she knew was in that cup...she knew she knew

Her face was soft & tender then - it was warm to the touch
You only had to look at her and right away she’d blush
She was everybody’s angel - lily white and pure
Nobody who knows her now would say that anymore, it just wouldn’t be true

She fell in with the hookers and she learned a lot of tricks
Like who to see for money, and where to get a fix
She can make you happy, if it’s happy that you want
She’ll do anything for you, if the money is up front...anything for you

That’s her in the doorway - her face is poorly lit
You would not see ‘till later - the places she’d been hit
One of these days...but today just is not it
A john comes up and offers her a hundred and she spits

She got herself a hotel room on Broadway two blocks down
From the hotel room she uses when she really goes to town
It’s not the California that she ran away to find
But it’s no worse & no more perverse than the place she left behind...Sweet Little Lou

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from Letters In The Dirt, released February 1, 1996

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