The Closed-Down Beauty Salon Blues by Homeless


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The Song Challenge: Hey Mister -- Want A Little Extra Off The Sides? Women in the Quebec city of Laval suspected their husbands and boyfriends were getting a bit more than a shave and a haircut at a local hair salon. Apparently, they were right. Police arrested eight people at Le Salon Sex Symbol, where stylists (disrobed), performed exotic dances and talked dirty as they clipped clients' hair, said police spokesman Guy Lajeunesse. The 2-month-old undercover investigation started after several women called police worried that the hairdressers were offering their husbands and boyfriends sexual services. Customers of the 5-year-old business received haircuts from scantily-clad women who 'for more money' (Ed. well, did 'very' naughty things). Though erotic hair salons are legal if no touching takes place, police believe patrons at Le Salon Sex Symbol could (do more than 'touch'). "We found some hair on the ground," Lajeunesse said. "One of the men got his hair cut. They have a few clients who just go for that. It's supposed to be the main attraction."

The Closed-Down Beauty Salon Blues by Homeless

I've always look spiffy
My clothes all on straight
My hair was so fancy
I always looked great.

But those days are over
I'll look smooth no more
Cause the ladies in town
have locked up the doors

I loved all them gals
They put a smile on my face
every time I went down
to that hair cutting place

I'd just get a hair cut
and some eye candy
And then when I left there
I'uz happy and looked dandy.

Them girls like to talk
Say my favorite thangs
Their words went real well
with them swivels and swangs

I've got them ...
Closed-down Beauty Salon blues.
(bridge, solo, whatever)
I've got them ...
Closed-down Beauty Salon blues.

I was always told
just to look and not touch
Them local polices
said that'd be too much

But it seems that some fellas
got carried away
They started to touchin'
So long as they paid

Now all of their wives
Said, "These antics must stop."
So they went down town and
they closed down my beauty shop.

(spoken, as song fades out)
and my hair's getting shaggy
and I miss those girls
I guess I'll find a barber
to cut off my curls.
Why'd those ladies have to go and do that?