I said I'd never come to this ugly old hotel again.
I said I'd never come to this ugly old hotel again.
Baby, here I am.

I said I'd never knock again on # 22
I said I'd never knock again on # 22
Baby, how are you?

Some nights something grabs you 
and  you don't even know what it is.
Some nights something grabs you 
and  you don't even know what it is.
Oh, honey, give me a kiss.

Leave that black slip on, dance just like you
 did last time.
Leave that black slip on, dance just like you
 did last time.
I'm so glad your plans for leaving fell through -
 just like mine.

Ain't no air conditioning, the ceiling fan don't work  too well.
Ain't no air conditioning, the ceiling fan don't work  too well.
Guess we'll have to sweat it out again at the
 Ballingal Hotel.

One night I knocked on the wrong door
One night I knocked on the wrong door
and myself as an old man answered - so drunk, so poor
 so poor.

I said I'd never come again to this ugly old hotel -
I said I'd never come again to this ugly old hotel -
but what the hell.
what the hell.
what the hell.

I'm in  the Ballingal Hotel.
How are you, baby?
How are you, baby?