Lyrics:

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 sin the blues


She?s perched like a parrot on his tuxedo shoulder

Christ, what she?s doing with him, she could be

Dancing with me

She stirs the ice in her glass with her elegant fingers

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


Chorus:

I saw you first

I?m the first one tonight

I saw you first

Don?t that give me the right

To move around your heart

Everyone?s lookin? br but I saw you first


On a moon spattered road in her parrot rebozo

Gypsy scotty?s driving his big long yellow car

She flies like a bird over his shoulder

She whispers in his ear, boy, you are my star


Chorus:

I saw you first

I?m the first one tonight

I saw you first

Don?t that give me the right

To move around your heart

Everyone?s lookin? br

In the bone colored dawn, me and gypsy scotty are singin? br the radio is playin? she left her shoes out in the back

He tells me a story about a girl he knows in kentucky

He just made that story up, there ain?t no girl like that


Chorus:

I saw you first

I?m the first one tonight

I saw you first

Don?t that give me the right

To move around your heart

Everyone?s lookin? br but I saw you first