Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Down in Mexico lyrics

There's a little spot in Mexico Too small to be a village and not large enough to be a town Joe plays the blues Joe plays the blues because he needs to Down in Mexicali there's a crazy little place that I know Where the drinks are hotter than the chilli sauce And the boss is a guy named Joe He wears a red bandana plays a Blues piano In a little old bar in Mexico He's a cool survivor, plays an old synthesiser And a honky tonk down in Mexico First time that I saw him, he was sitting on a piano stool I said "Tell me Joe when does the fun begin" He just winked his eye and said "Be cool" He wears a red bandana plays a Blues piano In a little old bar in Mexico He's a cool survivor, plays an old synthesiser And a honky tonk down in Mexico Joe plays the blues Joe plays the blues because he needs to Need is the ultimate monkey at the "Time Out Of Joint Café" A weird landscape of whacked-out plots With hi-fi loving farmers who look more like organic ghosts Being served by misanthropic robots Joe only plays one song One continuous vomitific never-ending song Half spoken in some obsolete vernacular He tells one long story about a girl A girl he met down in Mexico He wears a red bandana plays a Blues piano In a little old bar in Mexico He's a cool survivor, plays an old synthesiser And a honky tonk down in Mexico Joe plays the blues Joe plays the blues because he needs to