Standing on a corner in downtown L.A.
Waiting for the man to come along
She comes up to me and says " Too bad, too sad"
You know that he´s been dead and gone.

L.A. lady, kinda shady
She picked him up and took him home

I woke up groggy my sight was smoggy
And I knew that it had been blown

Early in the morning sitting in a hotel
Moscow´s looking fine through the wine
Spaced out I crashed out
When the K.G.B. came on the line.

It´s a cold one, bein´ sent down
It´s gotta be fifty below

Mama here´s a postcard to let you know
I´m in a saltmine and looking for coal

Shanghai´d in Shanghai
Stood on in Tuscon
Ripped off and kicked right out the bed

Flyin´ across the desert from Texas to Tuscon
But we´re headed for a southern star
The captain says it´s fine in Havana
This dude behind me needs a cigar.

He´s a big one, he´s got a big gun
I guess we better go along

Mister we´ve got a gig in Arizona
Second billing to the rolling stones

Shanghai´d in Shanghai
Stood on in Tuscon
Ripped off and kicked right out the bed
Shanghai´d in Shanghai
Laid low in ´Frisco
Done in and left behind for dead