( Moonshake )
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A sixteen year-old virgin out drinking with his mates.
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A layman, with the key to the Pearly Gates,
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signs his fake name in illegible scrawl,
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and a right-on type, the most ashamed of all.
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Just a working girl - schemes and misses appointments
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Just a working girl - dreams and disappointments.
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A fishmonger who hasn't washed for a week.
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A graphic artist who rinses so much he squeaks.
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A butcher with knotted muscles and a potted belly.
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Medical students, alls schoolboy chuckles and petroleum jelly.
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The overalls of bricklayers on a Saturday night.
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The suits of glum professionals with midweek blight.
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The glasses of computer freaks who've laid their software down,
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and the arses of accountants heaving up and down, up and down.
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A sales assistant with his petty hand in the till.
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The gasman is collecting just one more bill.
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A headmaster with a Polaroid and a pleated uniform.
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The nightwatchman stops by quickly on his long walk home.
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Just a working girl - schemes and missed appointments.
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Just a working girl - dreams and disappointments.
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Just a working girl - creams and dull apartments.
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Just a working girl
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| Polly Jean Harvey |
