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Now maria, she is a teller

Down at the savings & loan

Most of the days

She finds different ways

To kill time while she sits alone

But it’s Tuesday and the fifteenth

Tonight is the night of the bash

The workers of town plow the bank doors down

To get all their paychecks cashed

It’s payday in the village

The house band is a playin

Don’t plan for tomorrow

Cuz everybody’s stayin

Overnight at the pirate’s patch

Won’t believe the buzz you’ll catch

It don’t come through drink

It don’t come through smoke

It comes through the joy

Of the village folk

Now Alonzo, he is a foreman

Up at the ferguson plant

From eight until four

He will shell out the chores

His laborers sulk cuz they can’t

But it’s mid-month and a Tuesday

Tonight at the patch they’ll be found

Celebrated and vindicated

Cuz Alonzo will pick up their rounds

Devil trumpets blowin

Angel choirs singin

Don’t call on the telephone

Cuz we won’t hear the ringin

Overnight at the pirate’s patch

Won’t believe the buzz you’ll catch

It don’t come through drink

It don’t come through smoke

It comes through the joy

Of the village folk

Now Alonzo and Maria

Meet about half past nine

He makes a deal to pick up the meal

If she will just pick up the wine

There’s a big line at the nightclub

It winds down the neighborhood block

The manager thinks

And hopes they will drink

Cuz he’s kept twice the beer in stock

Overnight at the pirate’s patch

Won’t believe the buzz you’ll catch

It don’t come through drink

It don’t come through smoke

It comes through the joy

Of the village folk

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