I Saw You First

Lyrics

In a hand painted night, me and Gypsy Scotty are partners  
At the Hotel Flamingo, wearin black market shoes  
This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon  
No one wants to be lonely, no one wants to sing the blues  
  
She's perched like a parrot on his tuxedo shoulder  
Christ, what's she doing with him she could be dancing with me  
She stirs the ice in her glass with her elegant finger  
I want to be what she's drinking, yeah I just want to be  
  
I saw you first  
I'm the first one tonight  
I saw you first  
Don't that give me the right  
To move around in your heart  
Everyone was lookin  
But I saw you first  
  
On a moon spattered road in her parrot rebozo  
Gypsy Scotty is driving his big long yellow car  
She flies like a bird over his shoulder  
She whispers in his ear, boy, you are my star  
  
But I saw you first  
I'm the first one tonight  
Yes I saw you first  
Don't that give me the right  
To move around in your heart  
Everyone was lookin.....  
  
In the bone colored dawn, me and Gypsy Scotty are singin'  
The radio is playin, she left her shoes out in the back  
He tells me a story about some girl he knows in Kentucky  
He just made that story up, there ain't no girl like that  
  
But I saw you first  
I'm the first one tonight  
Yes I saw you first  
Don't that give me the right  
To move around in your heart  
Everyone was lookin  
But I saw you first  
I saw you first