Prior to the High Hopes Tour, Bruce Springsteen's management announced a new service allowing fans to download concert recordings approximately 48 hours after each show. Steve, you know, you know, Stevie, you know, I should've told her, I should've told her I was in a band or something, you know, play the guitar. You think I should do that, think that'd be a good idea? Sherlock Holmes? It's like I need a detective, I ain't seen her in a few years, you see. Like uh, like got someone I'm gonna hire. I've been thinking of hiring a detective to find her, you know. Clarence, Clarence, I've been thinking uh. Sha la la, la la la la, pretty flamingo I've been talking. (Sha la la) Yeah yeah, (sha la la la), pretty flamingo Sha la la, la la la la, (pretty flamingo) ? So nice, so nice Clarence, we've been talking together, I've been talking to her. We've been walking together, talking togetherĪnd when she walks, she brightens up my neighborhoodĪnd all of the guys they would make her theirs if they couldīut someday I'll make her my pretty flamingo Clarence!Īll them boys, all the boys are gonna envy meīecause paradise, that's where I'm gonna be 'Cause paradise, that's where I'm gonna be Well someday I'll make her my pretty flamingo Steve! She was out of reach, she was out of sightĪnd when she walks by, she brightens up my neighborhoodĪnd I know all of the guys they would make her theirs if they could When she walks, she moves so fine like a flamingo Exactly it was.Īll the guys on my block call her flamingo Didn't we have a name, Steve? (Steven Van Zandt: "I don't think we should tell anybody.") Yeah. He would, even he won't go up so we, we sat there for about two years watching. She think she's crazy, so go up and find out what her name is, you know, find out, get the story." But no. So we tried to get him to go up to this girl, said, "Why don't you go up to her. But like, nobody used to mess with him, nobody used to mess around because everybody thought he was crazy, everybody thought he was nuts. And he was like ? skinny little guy, he was real, like he was smaller than me. He'd like take, take like one of the balls, you know, and he'd like throw it across the table. And he'd walk up to the table where like the heaviest cats was playing, and there was money down on the game, and he always, you know, hate, hate us to stand around. He used to go in the pool hall, like around midnight on Saturday night late. I used to hang out with him for a while like. There was this kid on the, on the block that was, had this crazy kid, you know. And uh, he sit there the next day and then we used to try and get. Then it'd be his turn, it was his turn to go up and say it. So, like the next day'd come, like I'd stare, I wouldn't nothing, we watch her walk by. I'm gonna say, 'What's your name, girl?'." You know. We'd sit there and, you know, I'd say, "Steve, Steve, tomorrow, tomorrow I'm gonna go up to her.
And me and Steve, we would sit out there and we would try to get, try to get each other to go up and find out what her name is and stuff, you know. And she walked by my house every day, you know. I used to sit down on my porch, and uh, there used to be this one girl, used to work downtown, used to work in town. Whoa whoa whoa whoa There used to be this, uh, this─ I used to live on this street, called South Street.
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