Three from Steely Dan:
"Kid Charlemagne"
While the music played you worked by candlelight
Those San Francisco nights
You were the best in town
Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl
And you turned it on the world
That's when you turned the world around
Did you feel like Jesus
Did you realize
You were a champion in their eyes
On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene
But yours was kitchen-clean
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motorhome
Every A-fame had your number on the wall
You must have had it all
You'd go to LA on a dare and you'd go it alone
Could you live forever?
Could you see the day
Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?
CHORUS:
Get along
Get along Kid Charlemagne
Get along Kid Charlemagne
Now your patrons have all left you in the red
Your low-rent friends are dead
This life can be very strange
All those day-glo freaks who used to paint their face
They've joined the human race
Some things will never change
Son you were mistaken
You are obsolete
Look at all the white men on the street
(CHORUS)
Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
Those test tubes and the scale
Just get 'em all out of here
Is there gas in the car?
Yes there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall know who you are
Careful what you carry
'Cause the man is wise
You are still an outlaw in their eyes
(CHORUS)
"The Royal Scam"
And they wandered in from the city of St. John without a dime
Wearing coats that shined both red and green,
Colors from their sunny island
From their boats of iron they looked upon the promised land
Where surely life was sweet
On the rising tide to New York City
Did they ride into the street
See the glory
Of the royal scam
They are hounded down to the bottom of a bad town
Amidst the ruins
Where they learn to fear an angry race of fallen kings
Their dark companions
While the memory of their southern sky
Was clouded by a savage winter
Every patron saint hung on the wall
Shared the room with twenty sinners
See the glory
Of the royal scam
By the blackened wall he does it all
He thinks he's died and gone to heaven
Now the tale is told by the old man back home
He reads the letter
How they are paid in gold just to babble in the back room
All night and waste their time
And they wandered in from the city of St. John
Without a dime
See the glory
Of the royal scam
And then, there's "The Fez":
No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on
Oh no
Ain't never gonna do it without the fez on
Oh no
That's what I am
Please understand
I wanna be your holy man
No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on
Oh no
Ain't never gonna do it without the fez on
Oh no
That's what I am
Please understand
I wanna be your holy man
No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on
Oh no
Don't make me do it without the fez on
Oh no
That's what I am
Please understand
I wanna be your holy man
