Black Market Baby

Appears on Mule Variations

Version 1 | Lyrics

Version 1

    G#m        G#m6 
She lives in a house 
       A#7              D#7 
that's way back off the road 
          G#m        G#m6 
There's a man with a lantern 
       A#7         D#7 
and he carries her soul 
  C#m7              A7 
A coal stove and a bed 
  G#m7 
A skillet and a hound 
            C#m7            A7 
She drove a camel through a needle 
        D#7               G#m7 
in this sinking boardwalk town 
			
         C#m7 
She's my Black Market baby (She's my baby) 
         G#m7 
She's my Black Market baby (She's my baby) 
        D#7                       G#m    E7 
She's a diamond who wants to stay coal 
              G#m    E7 
Wants to stay coal 
			
I swang out wide with her 
on hell's iron gate 
Anything that you wanted 
You could have 
My eyes say their prayers to her 
Sailors ring her bell 
The way a moth mistakes a light bulb 
for the moon and goes to hell 
			
She's my Black Market baby (She's my baby) 
She's my Black Market baby (She's my baby) 
She's a diamond who wants to stay coal 
Wants to stay coal 
			
There's no prayer like desire 
There's amnesia in her kiss 
She's a swan and a pistol 
and she will follow you like this 
In Moberly, Missouri 
at the Iroquois Hotel 
She checked in with the President 
and she ran up quite a Bill 
			
She's my Black Market baby (She's my baby) 
She's my Black Market baby (She's my baby) 
She's a diamond who wants to stay coal 
Wants to stay coal 
			
(Solo) 
			
Well, she's whiskey in a teacup 
She gives blondes a lousy name 
She's a Bonzai Aphrodite(3) 
and a ticket back to Spain 
She's a hard way to go 
and there ain't no way to stop 
Everytime you play the red 
the black is coming up 
			
She's my Black Market baby (She's my baby) 
She's my Black Market baby (She's my baby) 
She's a diamond who wants to stay coal (She's my baby) 
She wants to stay coal (She's my baby) 
My baby wants to stay coal, coal, coal 
My baby wants to stay coal 

Lyrics

She lives in a house
That's way back off the road
There's a man with a lantern
And he carries her soul
A coal stove and a bed
A skillet and a hound
She drove a camel through
A needle
In this sinking board walk town

She's my Black Market Baby
She's my Black Market Baby
She's a diamond that
Wants to stay coal
Wants to stay coal

I swang out wide with her
On hells iron gate
Anything that you wanted
You could have
My eyes say their prayers to her
Sailors ring her bell
Like a moth mistakes a light bulb
For the moon and goes to hell

She's my Black Market Baby
She's my Black Market Baby
She's a diamond that
Wants to stay coal
Wants to stay coal

There's no prayer like desire
There's amnesia in her kiss
She's a swan and a pistol
And she will follow you like this
In Moverly, Missouri at the
Iroquois Hotel
She checked in with the President
And she ran up quite a Bill
(Chorus)
She's whiskey in a teacup
She gives blondes a lousy name
She's a Bonzai Aphrodite
And a ticket back to Spain
She's a hard way to go
And there ain't no way
To stop
Every time you play the red
The black is coming up

She's my Black Market baby
She's my Black Market baby
She's a diamond that
Wants to stay coal
Wants to stay coal