I mean I must have said
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Please Lord, send me a hard-luck childhood
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Please Bub, spare me a hot romance
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Please lady, gift me with genius, not pleasure
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Please Mrs. Henry, start me off without a chance
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I must have said
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Please sir, let me lay in the sewer that claimed me
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And let me wallow there even as I lose my sea
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Please Mr. Hula-Hoop, keep on ballistic
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You must be a man that got to be so sadistic
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Please Lord, I just love being me
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For every mom and pop and college green
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The harvest moon, a lynchin' tree
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'Cause an Americana misery
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Makes what a mess of me
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That underwater conversation
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Hasn't got a clue
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She should know ..
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Please
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| Nellie McKay |
