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Thread #32575   Message #429727
Posted By: Sorcha
30-Mar-01 - 09:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Big Mabel Murphy? / Big Mable Murphy (sic
Subject: Lyr Add: BIG MABLE MURPHY
Is this it? I am constantly amazed at what I find on the web.

BIG MABLE MURPHY

Way back in 29 in a town called Coffeeville
Was a honky-tonk named Big Mable Murphy’s
She had a sweetheart his name was Melvin
And hair would fly between them every night
Cause poor little Melvin was up every morning
With two black eyes and knuckle bumps on his head

They said that Melvin'd get high on bathtub gin
Cause it made him grow to almost twice his size
He'd try to take over he'd sass Big Mable
And her great big fist would black little Melvin’s eyes

One rainy evening Scarface Moozeyola
Come in and started shoving folks around
Big Mable Murphy was out in the kitchen
They say Scarface shot little Melvin down

The very next morning down by the river
Scarface was found a being a little short of breath
They say that Scarface had died from a whuppin'
He had two black eyes and knuckle bumps on his head

Big Mable Murphy's place raved on til she died
And sometimes a tear would fill her eye
And then she'd whisper lord I’d give anything
If once more I could black little Melvin’s eyes