Greg Brown - Ballingall Hotel lyrics

I said I'd never come to this ugly old hotel again. Baby, here I am. I said I'd never knock again on # 22 Baby, how are you? Some nights something grabs you and You don't even know what it is. Give me a kiss. Leave that black slip on and dance just like you Did last time. I'm so glad your plans for leaving fell through - Just like mine. Ain't no air conditioning, the ceiling fan don't work Too well. Guess we'll have to sweat it out again at the Ballingal Hotel. One night I knocked on the wrong door And myself as an old man answered - so drunk And so poor. I said I'd never come again to this ugly old hotel - But what the hell