House Of Negotiable Affections Lyrics - Singles - Zona Jones

The house stood on the outskirts of an old ghost town 

I brushed aside the cobwebs, walked in and looked around 

I found a dusty diary beside a worn out bed 

Dated 1882 and this is what it said 

This town has seven blacksmiths, twenty-five saloons 

Thirty-seven churches, and two-hundred hotel rooms 

More Longhorn Texas cattle than I have ever seen 

And the finest little cathouse this side of New Orleans 

In the House of Negotiable Affections 

Every cowboy is as special as the next one 

All the ladies are so lovely with their painted on complexions 

At the House of Negotiable Affections 

From Kansas down to Texas is a long and tiresome course 

And a cowboy needs more comfort than sidekick and a horse 

So he'll climb that spiral staircase to a dim lit little room 

Where he'll touch those red silk stockings and smell that sweet perfume 

In the House of Negotiable Affections 

There's Kansans and Nebraskans and there's Texans 

Lookin' up at the ceilin', laughin' at their own reflections 

In the House of Negotiable Affections 

I closed that dusty diary and laid it on the shelf 

Then all at once the bedsprings started squeakin' by themselves 

When I saw her ghostly figure, I nearly died of fright 

She said for half a dollar you can stay with me all night 

At the House of Negotiable Affections 

She was wearin' nothin' but a pale complexion 

I guess you might say I made a spiritual connection 

At the House of Negotiable Affections 

There's a few old cowboy bones, but mostly ghostly apparitions 

In the House of Negotiable Affections