Manhattan Kansas - Loretta Lynn

作词：Joe Allen

作曲：Joe Allen

Manhattan Kansas ain't no place to have a baby

If you've got no man to give it his last name

And my folks back in Manhattan didn't want me or my bundle

So I took my child and caught an evening train

I got a job in Denver washing dishes in a diner

At least it buys my baby milk to drink

He once told me I was pretty but the only ring it got me

Was the ring of grease that runs around the sink

Yes I lay beside him gentle oh he told me that he loved me

And he made me dance before the music played

But at least I didn't beg him I'd rather wash my dishes

It makes me feel as if my hands are clean

At night I stand there thinkin' about the men back home in Kansas

And how my folks just turned away to shame

I look down through the soap suds reached down and pulled the drain plug

And watch it as Manhattan drains away

Yes I lay beside him gentle oh he told me that he loved me

And he made me dance before the music played

But at least I didn't beg him I'd rather wash my dishes

It makes me feel as if my hands are clean