Standard (EADGBE)

  I hear mariachi static on the radio

  and the tubes they glow in the dark.

And I'm there with her in Encinada

  when I'm here in Echo Park

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  Carmelita, hold me tighter

  I think I'm sinkin down.

  And I'm all strung-out on heroin

  on the out--skirts of town.

  Well I pawned my Smith and Wesson

  and I went to meet my man.

He hangs out down on Alvarado Street

  by the Pioneer Chicken stand.

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  Well I'm sittin' here playin' russian roulet

  with my pearl handled gun.

The county won't give me no more methadone

  and they cut off your welfare check.

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