B Sides

ALAMO
BACHELORETTE
BEULAH LAND
COOLING
BLACK SWAN
BUTTERFLY
DAISY DEAD PETALS
FLYING DUTCHMEN
FROG ON MY TOE
GRAVEYARD
HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
HERE IN MY HEAD
HOME ON THE RANGE (CHEROKEE EDITION)
HONEY
HUMPTY DUMPTY
HUNGARIAN WEDDING SONG
MARY
NEVER SEEN BLUE
ODE TO THE BANANA KING PT ONE
PURPLE PEOPLE
SAMURAL
SISTER JANET
SISTER NAMED DESIRE
SONG FOR ERIC
SUGAR
SWEET DREAMS
TAKE TO THE SKY
THAT’S WHAT I LIKE MICK
THE POOL
THOUGHTS
TOODLES MR JIM
TILL THE CHICKEN
UPSIDE DOWN

ALAMO

Alamo
heard all about your fandango
begged on my knees on your back door
only to wake you to blues on the way
blues on the way
blues on the way
In Baquero, figures you'll see me as older
twenty-three hours til the border
Don't think I'll be going as fast as I came.
fast as I came
fast as I came
the tears on my pillow, of course they're not mine
alter that altar
make it a play
somebody invent the telephone line
I'll take my chances
Alamo
wish I could do what God does
heard that the stars were in order
got yourself dealt a hand
with two queen of spades
and blues on the way
blues on the way
tears on my pillow
of course they're not mine
alter that altar
make it a play
somebody just
somebody invent the telephone line
I'll take my chances

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Bachelorette
You climb on rooftops and you bat your eyes
You can turn dust into champagne
You even dream about his name

Bachelorette
The graves are painted pink for bachelorettes
You tried to show him that you can
But you can never rush a man

You must remember
You're a star girl, you're a car girl
You are at the door
The tide will turn
There's a window, there's a window

yeah da dum
You climb on rooftops and you
mmm
You tried to show him that you can
But you can never rush a man

Bachelorette
The things you do girls to your bachelorettes
You thought that inside it is
ya da da dye...

You must remember
You're a star girl, you're a car girl
You are at the door
The tide will turn
There's a window, there's a window

Bachelorette
You fly alone but when you cry somethimes
There's nothing like it in the world
You'll go to Paris on your own

Bachelorette
You climb on rooftops and you bat your eyes
You can turn dust into champagne
You even ya da dye da dye...

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Beulah Land
got a wasted gun
Licorice Man
I'll sum you up
Thumbs up
Got something in that sand
Beulah Girl
You better hitch me up

Got some candy
and a sweet saying
"Give me religion and a lobotomy"
Beulah land
your beautiful whore
Tell me when I don't need you anymore

Said that somewhere
You're gonna get something
Here so
You're right in the middle
And then I'm you
Something is coming back again
I said
You
Maybe I don't wanna go
To where you're not
So...

Beulah land
Gonna find me a worm
A place to be
this body on down
Got a rubber board
and a crocodile
Gonna float past your home

Say when
Just say when
Just say when

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Ride on, ride on friends of the black swan
ride on, ride on do you know where she's gone
gumdrops and Saturdays did Eric call by the way
he knew, he knew and he knew where the pillow goes
ride on, ride on friends of the black swan
ride on, ride on do you know where she's gone
buttercups and fishing flies the biggest thickest ever sky
I know they know something
I know
ride on, ride on now friends of the black swan
ride on, ride on you know where she's gone
Little green men do okay
It's the faeries' revenge they say
and gumdrops and Saturdays did Eric call by the way

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Stinky soul get a little lost in my own
Hey General, need a little love in that hole of yours
One ways, now, and Saturdays and our kittens all wrapped in cement
From cradle to gumdrops
Got me running girl as fast as I can
And is it right butterfly they like you better framed and dried
Daddy dear if I can kill one man why not two
well, nurses smile when you got iron veins
you can't stain their pretty shoes and pom poms and cherry blondes
and their kittens still wrapped in cement
from God's saviours to gumdrops
got me running girl as fast as I can
and is it right Butterfly they like you better framed and dried
got a pretty pretty garden pretty garden yes

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Maybe I didn't like hear
But I still can't believe Speed Racer is dead
So then I thought I'd make some plans
But Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead

And Peggy got a message for me, from Jesus
And I heard every word that you have said
And I know I have been
driven like the snow

But this is cooling
Faster then I can
This is cooling
Faster then I...

But do I hate what she is
Do I want to be her
And don't we love something fresh
Anything new, virgin

Woman, [you] got too many brambles
Hiding under these bushes
Woman, you got too many brambles
But I always liked a good storm
Always good for a storm

So then Love walked up to like
I know that you don't like me much/let's go for a ride
Said I know that she don't like me much
Let's go for a ride
This ocean is wrapped around that pineapple tree
And is your place in heaven
worth giving up these kisses
these kisses...
these kisses...

And Peggy got a message for me, from Jesus
And I've heard every word
That you have said
And I know I've been
driven like the snow

But this is cooling
Faster than I can
hey...
Faster than I can
cooling
This is cooling
This is cooling

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Daisy Dead Petals that is her name
she's in a phone booth phase so
underneath the shade of a peppermint tray
She can turn it on with a heal on she just rides into town
Knowing what they'll say knowing they're around the corner
got a crack in got a crack in some strange places
Daisy Dead Petals that is her name
so maybe she tastes like a hamburger maid well
these dead petals honey brought me here
she said "these dead petals honey brought me here"
dancing on a dime hearing mother cry
maybe she's around the corner
got a crack in got a crack in some strange places
on my back with on my back with some dirty dishes
falling down falling down all over the river
falling down, falling down, falling down
Wish what I was feeling could go on like this forever
Falling down, falling down, falling down
And since we're down might as well stay
Might as well fry some eggs
and wave to the shade of the peppermint tray
she's a new friend not a skeleton to ride into town
knowing what they'll say knowing she tastes like a hamburger maid, but
"these dead petals honey brought me here"
she said, "these dead petals honey brought me here"

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Hey kid I got a ride for you
they say your brain is a comic book tattoo
and you'll never be anything
what will you do with your life
that's all you hear from noon to night

take a trip on a rocket ship baby where the sea is the sky
I know the guy who runs the place and he's outta sight
Flying Dutchman are you out there
straight suits, they don't understand
she tried, that one, with the alligator boots
but the other side drew her in
Heart falling fast when she left,
even the milky way was dressed in black

take a trip on a rocket ship baby where the sea is the sky
I know the guy who runs the place and he's outta sight
Flying Dutchman are you out there
.
cause they can't see what you're born to be
they can't see me
they can't be
what they can't believe
they can see what you see

they'll keep the boy spinning in their own little world ah
tie him up so he won't say a word
they'll keep the boy spinning in their own little world
so afraid he'll be what they never were

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Poppa I know
there's a frog on my toe
maybe I'll call him Jethro.
maybe I'll grow up to be quite as good as he,
and maybe you'll come back after you're long gone.
and Poppa I'm sure the worms have eaten you now
and Jethro's been on some Frenchy's plate long ago
and now I'm pretty sure that I listened to every word
cause I still hear you telling me still
slap them boys when they're naughty
make them crawl, make you haughty
make you strong little girl
paint them toes that reddish color
and you know one day you're gonna be bigger than a flea
you're gonna be bigger than that old poison ivy tree
now I'm pretty sure that I think you come and visit
and talk sometimes kind of like Gidget and
in funny little chants like an Indian Brave
you said we all grew fat when the white men came
but one day girl
you're gonna learn to make 'em crawl
make them grow tall but have the grace
to be a lady with disgrace
you fry them 'taters and you make them with lady's hands and all
you're my poppy's baby

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here I said
don't even let this go
and it's hey
to that old man
I'm coming in the graveyard
with my little tune
it's june
I said she's gone but I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm coming in the graveyard to
sing you to sleep
now

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Have yourself a Merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on our troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a Merry little Christmas
Make the yuletide gay
From now on our troubles will be miles away

Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more

Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough
And, have yourself a Merry little Christmas now

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In my head I found you there
And running around and following me
But you don't dare
But I find that I have, now, more
Than I ever wanted to
So maybe thomas jefferson wasn't born
In your backyard like you have said and
Maybe i'm just the horizon you run to when she has left you
There you are, here in my head and
Running around and calling me
"Come back i'll show you the roses that brush off the snow and
Open their petals again and again"
And you know that apple-green icecream can melt in your hands
I can't so I
Held your hand at the fair
And even forgot what time it was
And even Thomas Jefferson wasn't born
In your backyard like you have said and
Maybe i'm just the horizon you run to
When she has left you
And me here alone on the floor
You're counting my feathers as the bells toll
You see the bow and the belt and the girls from the south
All favorites of mine you know them all well
And spring brings fresh little puddles that makes it all clear makes it
All
Do you know what this is doing to me
Here in my head

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Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam
where the dear and the antelope play
where seldom is heard a discouraging word
and the skies are not cloudy all day
well Jackson made deals, a thief down to his heels
hello trail of tears
the Smokies could hide a Cherokee bride,
her brave was shot yesterday
home home on the range
where the deer and the antelope play
where seldom is heard a discouraging word
and the skies are not cloudy all day
we know it's not Caroline
your home is my home
the range may be fine for some but not in my eyes
home home on the range
the Smokies always hide a
Cherokee bride but in her eyes
we know it's not Caroline
America
Oh who discovered your ass
the white man came "this land is my land
this land is your land" they sang
home home on the range
where the dear and the antelope play
where seldom is heard a discouraging word
and the skies are not cloudy all day

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A little dust never stopped me none he liked my shoes I kept them on
sometimes I can hold my tongue sometimes not,
when you just skip-to-loo my darlin'
and you know what you're doing so don't even
you're just too used to my honey now
you're just too used to my honey
And I think I could leave your world
If she was the better girl
so when we died I tried to bribe the undertaker
cause I'm not sure what you're doin' or the reasons
you're just too used to my honey now
you're just too used to my honey
don't bother coming down
I made a friend of the western sky
don't bother coming down
You always liked your babies tight
turn back one last time love to watch those cowboys ride
But cowboys know cowgirls ride on the indian side
and you know what you're doin' so don't even
you're just too used to my honey now
you're just too used to my honey

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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great, great fall and
all the king's horses and all the king's men
couldn't put Humpty together again
Humpty Dumpty and Betty Louise
stole a Sony and some Camembert cheese
and she said "Humpty baby
take me to the river
cause I like the way it runs
take me to the river
you know I like the way it runs"
he said "ah, ooh, everything's going my way"
he said "maybe it's my lucky day"
I said "anything you want I can give"
she said "I want to take your picture, mm, just for me"
he said "anything"
she said "up there baby get on the wall babe"
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
and looked at her as he was falling and
all the king's horses and all the king's men
couldn't put Humpty together again
hey Betty Louise Betty Louise
she said "I like custard in the summer, honey"
what it takes to be Queen
what it takes to be Queen
what it takes to be

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When you said you'd marry me
I thought you meant you'd wanted to
then I thought you'd like to
maybe on a Tuesday

all the dead are coming
I heard they'll be dressing
something kind of maggoty
rolling with froppity

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Everybody wants something from you
everybody wants a piece of Mary
lush valley all dressed in green
just ripe for the picking
God I want to get you out of here
you can ride in a pink Mustang
when I think of what we've done to you
Mary can you hear me
growing up isn't always fun
they tore your dress and stole your ribbons
they see you cry they lick their lips
well butterflies don't belong in nets
Mary can you hear me
Mary you're bleeding, Mary don't be afraid
we're just waking up and I hear help is on the way
Mary can you hear me
Mary like Jimmy said, Mary don't be afraid
"Cause even the wind even the wind cries your name"
Everybody wants you sweetheart
everybody got a dream of glory
Las Vegas got a pinup girl
they got her armed as they buy and sell her
rivers of milk running dry
cause you can't hear the dolphins crying
what'll we do when our babies scream
fill their mouths with some acid rain

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Some boy you are
To take me by the hand
In an elevator
In a dream
Maybe where you know the razor's been

And you said girl if you think
You can change that violator
You'll finally be that woman
Yes, finally be that woman that's been frozen
In that pretty silver girl

And I've never seen blue
Like the blues he drives
In and around and through me again
I've never seen eyes
Like the blues he drives
In and around and through me again
Through me again

Some boy you are are
To wear my color red
To wear it very proudly
And wear it like a lady
Knows how to cross her legs
Whether ...

And I've never seen blue
Like the blues he drives
In and around and through me again
I've never seen eyes
Like the blues he drives
In and around and through me again
Through me again

Said now that I am
Say goodbye to the rosewood
Said...

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Turning back ten thousand years
it's all a blur where the taxis go
monster man a willing friend
lucy serves the melon cold
violent and delicious souls
four red trucks dressed illegally
mother knows how the bugle blos
gonna get caught gonna get caught
gonna get caught in her rug
this is not a conclusion
no revolution
just a little confusion
on where your head has been
boats made out of paper float
dreams made up for the Banana King, darling
crumbs you have lapped freely of
devious we have all been
violent and delicious souls
violent and delicious souls
this is not a conclusion
no revolution
just a little confusion
on where your head has been

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Well hey do you do Judo when they surround you
A little mental Yoga will they disappear
It's grim but never dubious as motives go
No matter what it takes she promises a show
Thunder wishes it could be the snow
Wishes it could be as loved as she can be
These gifts are here for her, for you, for me

I watch me be this other thing I never know
If I'm marooned where the purple people go
Then lily white matricide from vicious words
It doesn't leave a scratch so therefore no one's hurt
Thunder wishes it could be the show
Wishes it could be as loved as she can be
These gifts are here for her, for you, for me

And don't you know the nurses make it clear
Just when you escape you have yourself to fear
A restaurant that never has to close
Breakfast every hour it could save the world
So hey do you do judo in your finery
An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly
Thunder wishes it could be the snow
Wishes it could be as loved as she can be
These gifts are here for her, for you for me

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you do your thing
My Samurai said going to the sanctuary
I knew about my la la la too
my Samurai done making a liar of me when
to be happy
to be you
he says
My Samurai take me down to the sanctuary
and I'm free
gonna be
you know me
you know me
I said I'm gonna be
gonna be
you know me
My Samurai taking my face
and she's sticking it on a daisy
and you
I think I cut that one too. I get the Samurai book out and just read words

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Master Shaman, I have come with my dolly from the shadow side
with a demon and an Englishman, I'm my mother I'm my son
nobody else is slipping the blade in easy
nobody else is slipping the blade in the marmalade
but all the angels and all the wizards, black and white,
are lighting candles in our hands
can you feel them, yes, touching hands before our eyes
and I can even see sweet Marianne
Sister Janet, you have come from the women clothed with the sun
your veil is quietly becoming non
Call the Wanderer he has gone
and all those up there are making it look so easy
with your perfect wings
A wing can cover all sorts of things
this again
well I think I could try this once again
but all the angels and all the wizards, black and white,
are lighting candles in our hands
can you feel them, yes, touching hands before our eyes
and I can even see sweet Marianne

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Got a sister named Desire
they don't let you light those
little boys
on the back hand swings.
know a vicar who coughs a lot
thought we told some little sweet stories
in the parking lot
they say the girl lost her sway
they say the girl lost her sway
that day
God, I'd like to take him for a long way
cause maybe I
then I just cry a little tear
near to that sleepy safe place
and I'm gonna take it by myself if I've got to go
don't let you, let you know
where she goes to with those meows and her fear
the girl lost her sway
they say the girl lost her sway
that day
teach me about them old old words
big brother man
In an elevator where
somebody can get out without sound
Say that girl lost her sway
just watch it
just watch it
slip through my hands, boy
watch it go
what you know, hey, yes
just see
cause she still can sway

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I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes
see you over hill and dale
riding on the wind I see
you know me you know me like the nightingale
"oh fair maiden, I see you standing there"
will you hold me for just a fair time
the tune is playing in the fair night
I see you in my dreams
Fair boy your eyes haunt me

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don't say morning's come
don't say it's up to me
if I could take twenty five minutes
out of the record books
sugar he brings me sugar
Bobby's collecting bees
And hammers he used one on me
cold war with little boys
get in with a bubble gum trade
sugar bring me sugar
I know the robins bring, bring me many things but
sugar he brings me sugar
as far as I can tell
I've been gone for miles now
and you know and I know I don't know me very well
and I know and you know if they found me out
sugar he brings me sugar
I know the robins bring they bring me many things
sugar he brings me sugar

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"Lie, lie, lies, ev'rywhere", said the father to the son
your peppermint breath gonna choke 'em to death
daddy watch your little black sheep run
he got a knives in his back every time he opens up
you ai, "he gotta be strong if he wanna be a man"
mister I don't know how you can have
sweet dreams sweet dreams
land, land of liberty
we're run by a constipated man
when you live in the past
you refuse to see when your
daughter come home nine months pregnant
with five billion points of light
gonna shine em on the face of your friends
they got the earth in a sling
they got the world on her knees
they even got your zipper between their teeth
sweet dreams sweet dreams
you say you say you say you have em I say that you're a liar
sweet dreams sweet dreams
go on, go on, go on and dream
your house is on fire
come along now
well, well, summer wind been catching up with me
"elephant mind, missy you don't have
you forgettin' to fly,
darlin', when you sleep"
I got a hazy lazy Susan
takin turns all over my dreams
I got lizards and snakes runnin' through my body
funny how they all have my face
sweet dreams sweet dreams

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This house is like Russia, with eyes cold and grey
you got me moving in a circle, I died my hair red today
I just want a little passion to hold me in the dark
I know I got some magic, buried, buried deep in my heart
but my priest says you ain't saving no souls
my father says you ain't makin' any money
my doctor says you just took it to the limit
and here I stand with this a sword in my hand
You can say it one more time what you don't like
Let me hear it one more time
Then have a seat while I take to the sky
my heart is like the ocean it gets in the way
so close to touching freedom then I hear the guards call my name
and my priest says you ain't saving no souls
my father says you ain't makin' any money
my doctors says you just took it to the limit
and here I stand with this a sword in my hand
You can say it one more time what you don't like
Let me hear it one more time
Then have a seat while I take to the sky
if you don't like me just a little, well, why do you hand around
if you don't like me just a little why do you take it
this house is like Russia
You can say it one more time what you don't like
Let me hear it one more time
Then have a seat while I take to the sky

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Cheese and onion sandwiches and Derby chinaware
fiddles and jigs and boogie my dog, Auntie Vee having a swear
taking my dad for a pint or two, a sunday morning stroll
licorice pipes and baggy suits, Glen Hoddle scoring a goal
catching a pike and riding my bike, old wooden wheels and a bowl of eels
yes, that's what I like boy
that's what I like
pie and mash and liquor, walking about in the rain
William books and comical looks, pianos trams and trains
coals and cockles and thunder storms, a place on the [wallace and ow](?)
grandfather clocks and coke and brandy
fountain pens and Beano and Dandy
that's what I like
I said, that's what I like
little pubs out in the country, mother pearl and Barnet Faire
the sound of the banjo barbershop singing and having a kip in the chair
burning toast a beer from the wood and old terry thomas' teeth
Jerry and Chet and Cannon & Ball, a banjo picking bill keith
and old bungalows wood burning stoves
and Shirley MacLaine and Petticoat Lane
that's what I like,
said that's what I like
yes, boy
yes that's just a...
bubble and squeak and jumble sales, Little Richard and Jerry Lee
bonfire night and Southend nights, paddle in the sea
polished brass and copper, salvation army bands
violins and old coach inns, and colored elastic bands
tea in the morning and winter beginning
fishing rods and frogs and spurs and winning years
that's what I like
hey, that's what I like
decorations off in the bases, going down hopping in Kent
a new pair of braces little kids faces sleeping under the tin
and wagons chickens and picking blackberries and swallows and sledges
and Devon and jerries and haddock and trotters horses and knickers
and cider and celery and banjoes and kippers
yeah, that's I like boy
that's what I like

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One with her hands
Open
"Don't be afraid" she said
"no one will know it --
just you and me"
And when it's over
I'll go back

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Thoughts right now
I picked up a magazine
ooh here we go
fifteen hundred years right here
burning witches burning books
burning babies in their looks
yes indeed burning everything that's sacred in my jeans
yeah yeah thoughts right now
she's been everybody else's girl
thoughts right now
right thoughts right now right right now
am I here am I here I'm never here
I'm never here I'm never here I'm never here
never a bird or a flower in the tree
or the pain of the respect there of
yes indeed
thoughts right now
what will become of me
become of her
become of we

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Toodles Mr Jim
you cherry picker
toodles I say, so long
hear that your grave's a little warm you stickler
sing 'em all your happy song
it's today
today Sunday
by your grave.

I say toodles Mr Jim
you cherry picker
taught me so well
how to spell those red in
and
and
hey
you know she deserved that nose
splattered and swattered blood in my hands
not a nice day for your little girl
but you came to my aid instead.

Now, now it's toodles Mr Jim
you cherry picker
build that ladder well
teach me just where those boys can climb
when they've got a spell.

Toodles Mr Jim
you are my sweet favourite neighbor of them all
of them
girls go to their parties
I don't care
cause I'm with you
still

That was Toodles Mr Jim.
Mr Jim died
two weeks ago
and he taught me how to pick cherries
and I punched his daughter in the nose
because she was mean
Mr Jim was good.

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so some say she got green enough field
and some say she got too many strings
with petticoats out and goin hall gown
the sweetest nylon no not where she's gone
gonna raise his tail and wraggle his wings
some say she got plenty of stockings
some say she got some Divas and Kramer
why all this spare then shaking her tail
the sweetest nylon no not where she's gone
gonna raise his tail and wraggle his wings
until the little chicken come home

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God I love to turn my little blue world upside down
God I love to turn my little blue world upside down
Inside my head the noise chatter chatter chatter chatter
You see i'm afraid i'll always be still comin out of my mother
Upside down
... but my heart it says you've been shatter shatter shatter shattered
and I know you're still a boy
still comin' out of your mother
but when you gonna stand on your own
I say the world is sick
you say tell me what that makes us darlin'
you see you always find my faults
faster than you find your own
you say the world is getting rid of her demons
I say baby what have you been smokin'
well I dreamed I dreamed I dreamed
I loved a black boy my daddy would scream
oh yeah don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside
any kinda touch I think is better than none
even upside down
but you see I'm tangled up
got a kitten kitten kitten kitten in my air
Cincinnati I like the word
It's the only thing we can't seem to turn upside down
well I found the secret to life
I'm ok when every thing is not ok.

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