Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)

John Mellencamp

Album: Mr. Happy Go Lucky





In a hand painted night, me and Gypsy Scotty are partners

At the Hotel Flamingo, wearing 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 the glass with her elegant finger

I want to be what she's drinking, yeah, I just want to be



1-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 looking

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

(repeat 1)



In the bone colored dawn, me and Gypsy Scotty are singin'

The radio is playing, she left her shoes out in the rain

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

(repeat 1)



But I saw you first

Yeah, yeah, yeah





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