Checkpoint Charlie Lyrics

Checkpoint Charlie
I had a dream I was in New Orleans
Maybe it was heaven
All I know I wasn't lonesome anymore
And the saints were marching in
Then I met a man chiseled from stone
Shared my table at the square
Maybe it was Jesus, maybe Iggy Pop
We smoked my last cigarette
What does it matter heaven or the latter
I'll pay the tab said the Nazarene
We can take all you've got good times or not
With Iggy and Jesus in New Orleans
It was daybreak way out on the levee
Iggy is playing washtub in three-quarter time
Down by the river I heard some clawhammer banjo
Me and Jesus went fishing
What does it matter the Bayou or El Paso
I'll pay the tab said the Nazarene
High as a fruit bat in Napa Valley
With Iggy and Jesus in New Orleans
Was it purgatory, was it Checkpoint Charlie's
I decided I was staying forever
That ol' morning sun maybe it was voodoo
I woke up to the whistling southbound train