Friday The 13th - Royal Crown Revue

Written by：D. Glass/Eddie Nichols

It was a fine left coast morning

And I found myself planted outside

The Cap 'N' Cork

Tipping back the hops

In order to calm my dancing hands

You see I usually don't play

The tied-up watchdog routine

Looking up and down the street

But this is the corner

Joey A my car and I

Were supposed to meet

You see Joey The Amateur and I

Were out clinkin' glasses last night

When I got three sheets to an ill wind

Myself being in possession

Of a fine Double 5 Lincoln convert

Joey offered to skip me back to the crib

I awoke to a barren driveway

And a neighbor started to chide

"Joey dumped you off

And he's got your ride "

Black cats they don't bother me

I smile in bad company

And I'm cool as the day is long

But takin' my car daddy

That's dead wrong

It was now 11:22

And up scuffles Benny The Shoe

A real hot air merchant from way back

I inquired about Joey A

And my superfine Lincoln

Then Mr B S beat his gums

And testified to me

"Joe's washing the short

Changing da oil

He'll be here by three "

So the little hand hits three

And who should appear

But a Cuban cat named Geronimo

An upstanding cat

In the textile business

He said "Joey knocked over a racketman

And is laying low for a few

But in your trunk he left you some treasure

A pint of rye and a case of Slim Jim's

For your masticating pleasure

Black cats they don't bother me

I smile in bad company

And I'm cool as the day is long

But takin' my car daddy

That's dead wrong

Now ten p m finds me

Hot as a hophead's zippo

When Rosie appears

On her financially motivated

Nightly exercise routine

I asked the whereabouts

Of the horsepower thief in question

And she shot me that amphetamine stare

And said "Joey A

I just got out of his Lincoln

On Hollywood Way "

I thought

"Kill Joey A " when the bar keep came out

To simmer my slow boil

He said "Joey A just called on the blower

He said you better skip town

'Cause the cops got your ride

You're wanted for solicitation

Possession -- you owe him one

And here's the scather " He said

"And another thing cat

Don't ask me for

Goddamn favors "

Black cats they don't bother me

I smile in bad company

And I'm cool as the day is long

Black cats they don't bother me

I smile in bad company

And I'm cool as the day is long

But takin' my car daddy

That's dead wrong