I was sittin' in this five star place going nowhere fast
  When she caught my attention through the bottom of my glass
  She was a waitress in the hotel above this smoky bar
  She got up at dawn for breakfast and worked on 'til it got dark
  And at six o'clock when her shift was up she'd drink the night away
  Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day
  
  Well she told me where she came from was a petty kind of town
  How her parents became born-agains after her brother got knocked down
  And how she found the magazines in the boot of daddy's car
  And he told her he was weak sometimes, just like how all gentlemen are
  And in summer she'd work in his shop and then cry the night away
  Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day
  
  So she left her home and family one cloudy afternoon
  And she came here with her girlfriend who had found them both a room
  And everyday they'd wake up early and go looking for a wage
  In high-heels and makeup they would lie about their age
  With her first job as a barmaid she's just dream her shift away
  Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day
  
  And one day by the dole office a car window rolled down
  And a gentleman asked for directions to her old home town
  And it transpired he knew her family and he owned a string of bars
  So he offered her a job if she would kiss him in his car
  So it was that she accepted his advance of one week's pay
  Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day
  
  And as she told me all these tales she picked a scab around her wrist
  That she confessed it was self-inflicted with a whisky glass like this
  Then she game her name and number to me -- I did not give mine
  She said maybe I should call her for some fun some time
  
  And the funniest thing was that that name stuck in my head
  And eight months later it was in a headline that I read
  They had pulled her out the river in that same black dress
  And she lay there quite the lady for the gentlemen of the press
  And her picture in the paper looked so small and far away
  Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day