Dance Hall Girls - Tom Russell

These dance hall girls, they treat you kind

They give you their bodies, but you’ll never touch their minds

They’ll fill you up, with lipstick lies

Then they put you down son

Don’t be surprised

Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?

I held her mountains, I kissed her plains

I touched her sunshine, Lord then I drank her rain

But I went too far.

Then I broke too fast

I thought I had a winner picked

I came in last, again

Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?

I must have chosen the wrong season to come down

I never realized they call this sacred ground

My sense of time, a-hell I’m a week behind

I sent a letter home, but this all takes time you know

I wanna get some money, I wanna go back home

But these dance hall girls

Know how to make a man feel alone

Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?

I must have chosen the wrong season to come down

I never realized they call this sacred ground

My sense of time, a-hell I’m a week behind

They give you their bodies, but you’ll never touch their minds

They’ll fill you up, with lipstick lies

These dance hall girls say

They can’t stand to see a grown man cry

Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?

Is this the way it always is here in Montreal?

Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?