I was in an all night movie   When I heard the usher say   Here comes the midnight cowboy   Got his gun hired out for pay;   You were walking kind of faded   From the netherlands hotel   With your hat tipped off to ladies   Really looking well.      Aw joe, why don't you go back home?    Really hate to see you falling down   Get out of town.      Well you came to new york city with a calendar full of gold   Now they locked it up in the bedroom   And they kicked you out in the cold;   Now you can't afford a little blanket   You can get one from a friend   You can trick one off the corner   You can even keep the change - to spend.      Hey joe, why don't you go back home?    Really hate to see you come falling down   Get out of town.      There's a soldier in the depot   He's a fighting nightingale   Wearing western boots and buckskin on   Reading fortunes from the penny scale;   Now today he's got a a quarter   For the photograph machine   But tomorrow he'll be lonely lonely   That's the way it's always been.      Poor joe, why don't you go back home?    Really hate to see you falling down   Get out of town.      I was in an all night movie   When I heard the usher say   Here comes the midnight cowboy again   Got his gun hired out for pay;   You were walking kind of faded   From the netherlands hotel   Hat tipped off to ladies   Tipped off to gentlemen as well.      Well joe, why don't you go back home?    Find yourself a girl and settle down   Get out of town   Get out of town   Find yourself a girl, go and settle down   Hey joe, looking more lost than found   Get out of town.