Red Light Saloon

I arrived in Muskegon the tenth of July
For connections to make with a train I did find.

Got left in Muskegon and that was my doom
When I paid a short visit to the Red Light Saloon

Oh the Red Light Saloon in Muskegon I walked to the bar
A red headed maiden sold me a cigar

I took my cigar and sat down in the chair
And this red headed maiden come tripin' and skippin' 'round there.

Oh she sat in my lap. She paid with my mustache and mussed up my hair
Oh joy-boy old Ruben went up in the air.

Oh we tripped up the stairway a bedroom to find
I done shucked my cloths and she pulled down the bind.

Oh laid there a-puffin and a-panting a while
She says, "Get off me you damned hobo. You've got me with child."

Oh she washed off my dodger and scrubbed out her cunt.
And she went right downstairs for some more jazzing to hunt

If you should meet this fair maiden when roses to bloom
She'll jazz for two dollars in Muskegon at the Red Light Saloon.

August 1941. Transcribed from the singing of Bill Neupert, Schofield, Wisconsin.



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