Tom Paxton - The Hooker lyrics

Where do you go at night Where do you go at night Wrapped in your cheap cologne Where do you go at night Down to the pit with the stinking air And the smell of the sweat and the d**h is there I dance for a dollar and I dance for a dime Till their eyes are begging and their pockets are mine I pick a body and I name my fee I take their money and they take me That's where I go at night That's where I go at night Don't point your finger Say your prayers at me The truth is hard but I'm gonna tell it Ah, there's a whole lot of ways to sell it How do you spend your days How do you spend your days When you can sleep no more How do you spend your days I rise at four in the afternoon I take a match and the kitchen spoon I wrap my arm in an old necktie And I find religion on the very first try I wash my face and I comb my hair My looks are going but I just don't care And that's how I spend my days That's how I spend my days Don't point your finger Say your prayers at me The truth is hard but I'm gonna tell it Ah, there's a whole lot of ways to sell it Where do you find your love Where do you find your love Where do you run to him Where do you find your love I find my love in an old hotel He's mean and wicked and he knows me well He takes my body; he takes my mind Takes my money and he beats me blind Says he'll help me but he won't say when Sends me walking on the streets again And that's where I find my love That's where I find my love Don't point your finger Say your prayers at me The truth is hard but I'm gonna tell it Ah, there's a whole lot of ways to sell it How will you spend your life How will you spend your life While ladies play at cards How will you spend your life Lying in a circle of velvet rooms Dying in six inch carpet of tombs Hiding in the gutter with the aching pains Trading the years for the aching veins Dying at last when the tricks are few And I can't get action from a john like you Ah, that's how I spend my life That's how I spend my life Don't point your finger Say your prayers at me The truth is hard but I'm gonna tell it Ah, there's a whole lot of ways to sell it