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Elisabeth : "Cab!"
Carry mine and I'll walk like you Will nod or go and get a cab Think nothing of it. I feel fine Carry mine and I'll walk like you Will nod or go and get a cab Here in thenorth part Here's my sweetheart He's a bit like you some others too If I only knew |
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Of course they just tried to remove
The apple from a bucket of (Water without using their hands) A drink would make you feel better They raced the waiter with a tray Hey! They raced each other the same way Hey! Raced him with their tray, only for a day Of course they just tried to remove The bucket from that little mad (man I then saw with the huge head) Hey! They raced each other the same way Hey! Raced him with their tray, only for a day He snapped his fingers and then recited a sing-song one Part of a play-party game No one did catch it's name They began about a quarter past one o'clock in the morning A rhythmic quick-cadenced walking around the dining room table And they're still at it |
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They had turkey wing fans and they felt kind of elegant
Nothing to do but just sit there I wanted them to walk by him the way They would pass by a person asking for money in an alley They not only wrote like him They also walked with his rolling slouch Drank likehis heroes and heroines, Cultivated a hard-boiled melancholy And he writes slowly in longhand Possibly forty lines a day (rhymes) |
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Some sock in the eye
And she fell in the inglenook She's so flat and tenderfoot Forelocks in the way Absolute If you will, romp in the nook And a bit knee-high And she fell in the inglenook She's so flat and tenderfoot Forelocks in the way Absolute If you will, romp in the nook |
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I'll tell you a better story than
'Little Kay of the skates' Or 'The Snow Ghost' He tore off some tender new tips and Rubbed them on his hands Until the air was filled with the sharp smell Just tore off some tender new tips The afternoon wind struck him and Blew up his hair and ruffed his shirt Shoot shoot! He came in his breeches and his shirt The tail was flying out behind him He stood there, looking up at me Like a wild-eyed cow moose Surprised in the sheriff's only cornfield Blew up his hair and ruffed his shirt Shoot shoot! |
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'I'm Popeye the sailorman'
Or whichever old tune he sang Spiced up with a few hot damns The sailorman He made a comely row of trees On each side of the country road So that a daily sort of man Driving beneath them in his lumber wagon Might fancy himself lord of a private road Right after the first few notes All the goats turned their heads They would get fed He was a tall lanky guy With stooped shoulders and a shy seemed studious face 'Popeye the Sailorman' |
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What you'll do I do too
So that The dot on the I between the H and the T The tap on the knee The pot for the pee Keep on doing what you're doing 'cause you're doing something right What you'll do I do too They all gazed at me a long time As if I were a slot machine Into which they had Without results Dropped a nickel Coin-op on the countertop Of the record shop What you'll do I do too |
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We went to the local fish-shack restaurant
And ordered two dozen crabs dusted with cayenne Steamed up and served with a pair of wooden mallets I never had anything like that They all seem to earn a living by jumping off city-bridges Visitors could only rub their eyes in amazement Just beause they were not used to so much happiness |
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He writes rhymes for his friends' children
Dotes on mystery stories And at the slightest provocation he sings folk songs Of key and in key Here and there people sat on benches Reading newspapers or straining their faces to the sun Their eyes closed Trying to catch a bit of sunburn to carry home proudly He pulled his feet under his bench as he was ashamed of his shoes His dog loves to walk and travel in cars, in planes, on rafts, in elevators and on escalators. Then we'll let some daylight into it for once if it kills us right on the spot No sort of middle state, no easy jog trot with him If he never wrote when he wasn't in the mood He would make no headway Ololo |
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Say to
Say Pel |
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