Absolutely Sweet Marie

Well your railroad gate
You know I just can't jump it
Sometimes it gets so hard, you see
I sit alone here
Tapping on my trumpet
With all the promises you left with me

Tell me where are you tonight, sweet Marie?

I waited for you when I was half sick
Oh, I waited for you when you hated me
I waited for you, babe, inside the frozen traffic
When you knew I had some better place to be

Well, where are you tonight, sweet Marie?

Anyone can be like me, you see- obviously
Then again not anyone can be like you- fortunately
Those six white horses that you did promise
They were finally delivered down to the penitentiary
But to live outside the law you must be honest
Well babe, you always told me you agreed

Well then where are you tonight, sweet Marie?

Well I don't know how it happened
But the riverboat captain, he knows my fate
Anyone else, including yourself
Is just going to have to wait
I got the fever down in my pocket
Oh, the Persian drunkard, he follows me
I could take him back to your house but I can't unlock it
You see you forgot to leave me with the key

Tell me where are you tonight, sweet Marie?

Well I waited in jail
When all the mail did show
That a man shouldn't give out his address to bad company
And I stand here staring at your yellow railroad
In the ruins of your balcony
Wondering where you are tonight, sweet Marie

Tell me where are you tonight, sweet Marie?