She said that she was starvin'
She asked me my name
I told her it was Marvin
She said she was Elaine

She said that she was thirty
I figured 'bout thirty-nine
She asked if she looked purty
I said she looked just fine

I took her to the IHOP
Took her to the liquor store
I took her to the motel
Till she couldn't take no more
I took her to the movies
Took her home to meet my dad
She said she liked me purty good
But I liked her...purty bad

We spent some time just holdin' hands
And walking down the road
She told me 'bout everything she'd done
And everyone she knowed

But she came to me one mornin'
Without no makeup on
It served to me a warnin'
And shook me to the bone

'Cause I'd took her to the IHOP
And to the liquor store
I'd took her to the motel
Till she couldn't take no more
I'd took her to the movies
Took her home to meet my dad
She said she like me purty good
But I liked her...purty bad

I knew by now, I had to somehow
Find a way to go
Sometime, between now
And her five o'clock shadow

She said that she was thirty
But doubts now, I sure had
She asked if she looked purty
And I told her...purty bad

'Cause ii'd took her to the IHOP
Took her to the liquor store
I'd took her to the motel
Till she couldn't take no more
I'd took her to the movies
Took her home to meet my dad
She said she liked me purty good
But I liked her...purty bad

She asked if she looked purty
And I told her...purty bad