Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

He got the droop of a fatherless child

 Almost imperceptible, one can’t see it with the naked eye

 Oh but I can

That cardboard lady in the corner store

Her sparkle is all painted on

 Six no-good men took her shine and more

 Left her youth near Sausalito

Chorus

 Oh it’s humourless and comical at once

Always being a stranger wearing the last town’s dust

 Oh it’s humourless, it’s humourless

Verse

They look me over, one up and one down

I can tell they’re wondering who my people are

 I say I’m new in town

 I know it’s gonna take a while

Chorus

 Oh it’s humourless and comical at once

Always being a stranger wearing the last town’s dust

 Oh it’s humourless, it’s humourless

Verse

I speculate and browse the duraflame

Winter in the west coast cool

 Out by the sea where no one knows my name

 I’m on the road like Jack Kerouac

Like Jack, Jack Kerouac

Like Jack, Jack Kerouac

Like Jack, Jack Kerouac