A portrait of the long-defunct El Dorado Lunch Room in Montreal.
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Lyrics
EL DORADO
Words by Malcolm Reid
Music by Jim Best
© Copyright by Malcolm Reid & Jim Best
Verse 1
El Dorado
Coffee to go
Porridge is hot
Cold chien chaud
Pensioners wonder, but hookers they know
Brownie McGee
Edgar Allen Poe
Verse 2
Ste. Catherine Street
Cop on the beat
Sugar is bad, but you want something sweet.
Some crazy fool shoutin’ “Go, man, go.”
Brownie McGee
Edgar Allen Poe
Instrumental Break
Verse 3
Out of the night
Bats in their flight
Transvestites findin’ their shoulder straps tight.
Seems like this started a long time ago.
Brownie McGee
Edgar Allen Poe
Verse 4
From nine to five
I guess I’m alive
Workin’ my day job, talkin’ that jive.
I’ve got my problems, the boss got his dough
Brownie McGee,
Edgar Allen Poe
Instrumental Break
Verse 5
East Montreal
I’ve had my fall
It really don’t bother me at all.
Maudlin self-pity, I like you just so.
Brownie McGee,
Edgar Allen Poe
Verse 6
El Dorado
Mean old black crow
Cheap cafeteria where all of us go
Please wontcha pour me my coffee to go.
Brownie McGee,
Edgar Allen Poe.
