Jodie wears a hat although it hasn’t rained for six days
She says a girl needs a gun these days hey on account of those rattlesnakes
On account of those rattlesnakes

She looks like Eve Marie Saint on the waterfront
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
Hey she’s less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
And her neverborn child haunts her now
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with the traffic police out of boredom more than spite
She never finds no trouble
She tries too hard
She’s oblivious despite herself

Hey she looks like Eve Marie Saint on the waterfront
She says all she needs is therapy
All you need is
Love is all you need
Ah ah

Jodie never sleeps ‘cause there are always needles in the hay
She says that a girl needs a gun these days hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes

She looks like Eve Marie Saint on the waterfront
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
Her heart’s like crazy paving
Upside down and back to front
She says oh, it’s so hard to love when love was your great disappointment

Ooh those rattlesnakes
She says that a girl needs a gun these days hey oh oh mmm mmm
A girl needs a gun these days hey on account of these rattlesnakes
On account of these rattlesnakes oh