I was of poor folk
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But my mother had a rabbit fur coat
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And a girl of less character pushed her down the L.A. River
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Hand over that rabbit fur coat
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She put a knife to her throat
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Hand over that rabbit fur coat
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When my ma refused, the girl kicked dirt on her blouse
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Stay away from my mansion house
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My mother really suffered for that
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Spent her life in a gold plated body cast
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Now, you ask, did she get that girl back?
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She paid a visit to that mansion house
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She knew the girl was not there
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But her father was in cufflinks with slicked-back black hair
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He invited her in, they never sang a note
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But she took off that rabbit fur coat
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And who do you think came home?
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Miss so and so
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She took one look at my ma and what did she say?
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""Why are you stealing from my mansion house?""
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No, I'm in love with Mr. so and so
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He invited me in, I'm a girl no more
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Then she dragged my ma out by her throat
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Hand over that rabbit fur coat
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Let's move ahead twenty years, shall we?
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She was waitressing on welfare, we were living in the valley
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A lady says to my ma you treat your girl as your spouse
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You can live in a mansion house
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And so we did
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And I became a 100.000 dollar kid
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When I was old enough to realize, wiped the dust from my mother's eyes
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It's all this for that rabbit fur coat
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But I'm not bitter about it
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I've packed up my things and let them have at it
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And the fortune faded, as fortunes often do
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And so did that mansion house
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Where my ma is now, I don't know
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She was living in her car, I was living on the road
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And I hear she's putting that stuff up her nose
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And still wearing that rabbit fur coat
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But mostly I'm a hypocrite
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I sing songs about the deficit
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But when I sell out and leave Omaha, what will I get?
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A mansion house and a rabbit fur coat.
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Rabbit Fur Coat
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Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins |