She's a poor girl This is a story 'bout a poor girl, a story that you ought to know She lived all alone in a one room flat on a street where the lights are low Every night about the same time she'd go and put her glad rags on Go to the place where

(Girl) girl gone bad Ah lazy eyes in the summer heat, Fresh from outta town Now she's working on the street, Shakin' poor boys down Uh (girl) uh girl gone bad Found that girl with a lonesome John, But she should've been with me Guess that woman fallen in