Halloween's Tonight

I wrote this song in a Canadian island cabin on Halloween. I was noodling with "Walk On the Wild Side" and wondered, "What's Lou Reed doing tonight?" I missed San Francisco too.

(E) Tourists eat candy in the apple-red light

(A) Louie's in drag but that's just life

(E) Tony's dolled up like a princess pup

(A) Barbie's butched up and she wants it rough

(B7) Halloween's ton(E)ight

(E) Barbary Boys got their makeup right

(A) Daddy cruises Market on his pink-steel bike

(E) Sisters of Indulgence in their everyday clothes

(A) Father Castro must confess he covets their robes

 

(B7) Halloween's ton(E)ight

(E) Candy-corn cable cars, pumpkins are stoned

(A) Grinning brains on fire, I saw Casper the Ghost

(E) going down on Cupid, wasn't wearing a stitch

(A)  shooting arrows straight through the naked Wicked Witch

(B7) Halloween's ton(E)ight

(E) Marquis de Sade gave Doris Day a sweet trick and a treat

(A) a Dore Alley spanking and a Folsom leather seat

(E) Toto's in the back room making Judy Garland sounds

(A) Have your fun, beware of lumps -- hey, man, there's Good Old Charlie Brown

(B7) Halloween's ton(E)ight