Intro:  A  B  A  B 
        A  B  A  B 
 
A             B         A            B 
Don't you know I need a place to stay 
A           B        A   B 
Only fifteen bucks a day 
  F 
I didn't want to end up here 
    G 
But now I guess I need to stay 
 
A     B 
A     B 
 
(second verse, same as the first!) 
 
River red, runs like lead 
And the smell of kerosene in my head 
Stuck here in this shithole 
Reading foreign magazines instead 
 
Chorus: 
A        B 
A        A 
 
B 
"But senor, I only have ten dollars; 
B 
Can't you spare me a room for the night?" 
   A           G            E 
We argue about currency and then 
              C 
He says I can stay for the night 
 
        E      G    C     A 
In this Panama City Motel 
G F# E          G         C 
I am out on the freeway again 
 
A     B 
A     B 
A     B 
A     B 
 
(third verse) 
A woman approaches in Barcelona 
Walking down the Diagonalia 
Spaghetti concrete overpasses 
I keep grasping for something familiar 
 
Chorus 
 
Repeat 2nd part of Chorus again 
then follow the "A    B" rhythm while singing ad lib 
"Oh No... Don't you know I need a place to stay" 
the song finishes on a sustained A