text: Little black girl in a red dress on a hot night with a broken shoe
  Little black girl, you shouldve never left home
  Theres probably someone still waitin up for you
  Its cold back in Chicago, but the Los Angeles street is worse
  All you got is twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse
  See that vulture in the Fleetwood with the chartreuse hood
  He can see youre tryin to get your bearings
  Say hey baby, which ways the main stem?
  Wherever you say youre from, hell say he grew up there himself
  He gonna come on and make you feel like you grew up right next door to him
  Take a left on Central, gonna throw it in reverse
  All you got is twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse
  He gonna come on just like a gentleman
  And oh baby, youre gonna be a little shy
  You say your ex-old man was a sax player
  He says, Baby, I used to play bass with Sly
  And you say you like his Cadillac
  Says Honey, I got two or three
  Sweetheart, youre sure fortunate that you ran into me
  Youve done a dime in the joint, you figure nothin could be worse
  Than twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse
  Got Pharoah on 8-track, you start smokin a little boo
  Thinkin gettin out of Chicago was just about the best thing thats ever happened to you
  You startin to like it already, this cat seems to be cool
  He says, Baby, I know a good old jailhouse in West-Hollywood
  Be just right for you
  He aint no good Samaritan, he gonna make sure hes reimbursed
  A lot more than twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse
  And when the streets get hungry, baby, and you almost hear em growl
  Someones savin a place for you when the dogs begin to howl
  When the streets are dead, they creep up and take whatevers left on the bone
  And remember suckers always make mistakes when theyre far away from home
  Chicken in the pot, whoever gets there first is gonna get themselves
  Twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse
  And the sirens just an epilogue, the cops here always get there too late
  They always stop for coffee on their way to the scene of the crime
  They always try so hard to look just like movie stars
  But they couldnt catch a cold, baby, dont waste your dime
  Shes lucky to be alive, the doctor whispered to the nurse
  She only lost half a pint of blood
  Twenty-nine dollars and an alligator purse