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Thread #20774   Message #217864
Posted By: dick greenhaus
25-Apr-00 - 05:27 PM
Thread Name: How many fallen women does it take? (songs)
Subject: RE: How many fallen women does it take?
"They say that she's sunken, they say that she fell
From the narrow and virtuous path
But her French formal gardens are sunken as well
And so is her pink marble bath"

[See WE NEVER MENTION AUNT CLARA]

To which I can add, from the top of my head,

I RIDE AN OLD PAINT (...son went to college, his daughter went wrong)

"THere's a name that's never spoken..." [See "PICTURE THAT IS TURNED TOWARD THE WALL"]

"'twas a cold winter's evening, the boys were all leaving, O'Reilley was closing the bar..." [See "THE LADY IN RED"]

BAD GIRL'S LAMENT

NANCY BROWN..."She came down that mountain early, more a woman than a girly..."

CHARLOTTE THE HARLOT

KAFOOZALEM

....there's a lot