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The Camptown ladies came again

The World’s Fair and the oil can

Dan the Strongman, and Tyler too

They sashayed in, in garland capes

Brandished pork and organ pipes

Ablaze in stars and stripes and boo hoo hoo

Now I liked to keep my engine clean

I’d fill it up with gasoline

I’d get it shining bright like new

But all of them just took a piece

And drove it out, out on the streets

And left me black with grease and high on glue

I said «Let me keep my vague romances

All the silver went to Francis

And all the second chances went to Sue»

And I buried their sorrows then

Deep in the sunbaked Sudan

And took the mountain van to Katmandoo

Now, the white boy had a family band

And I traded an accordion

For beans and three sardines and vegan stew

But they left me on the fourteenth flour

Strangled like an albacore

Screaming like a eunuch Cockatoo

And now I’m alone and I don’t feel right

I’m hanging on a hallway light

With an open container and a fever of a hundred and two

And tomorrow it is set to rain

The city is a frying pan

And I’m a hot dog in a bark canoe

Drifting through the open crowd

In Black Peter’s cloak and shroud

Singing loud to the chosen few

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