Alligator (Live at Fillmore East, New York City, April 1971)

Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun

Playing by the river just like he usually done

Call for his whisky, honey

He can call for his tea

Call all he want to now but he

Can't call me

Oh, no, oh, no

Well, I've been there before

Ain't coming back around there no more

Hung up waiting for a windy day

Hung up waiting for a windy day

Sleepin' alligator coming all around the bend

Talking 'bout the times when we was mutual friends, oh, no

I check my memory now

I check it quick, oh, yes I will

I check it running

Some old kind of trick, my, my

Oh, no, well, I

Been there before

Not coming back around

Here no more, oh, no, alright

Riding down the river in an old canoe

A bunch of bugs and an old tennis shoe

Out of the river all ugly and green

Came the biggest old alligator that I've ever seen

Teeth big and pointed and his eyes were bugging out

Contact the union, put the beggars to route

Just out of prison on six dollars bail

Mumbling at bitches and wagging his tail