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Old 04-26-2012, 09:50 PM   #19151
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If absinthe can drive people mad
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My brain will turn green
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My brain will turn green
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My brain will turn green,
And my thoughts--all obscene.
The best day that I've ever had.

She said she had mastered some tricks
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She said she had mastered some tricks
She used them on young, country hicks
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She said she had mastered some tricks
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Matera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsMatera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsMatera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsMatera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsMatera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsMatera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsMatera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsMatera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsMatera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsMatera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsMatera the Mad is so great that we've run out of appropriate compliments
She said she had mastered some tricks
She used them on young, country hicks
She juggled her plates
while hoping for dates
But none took her out to the flicks.

One young man made eyes at her, joking
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Old 04-30-2012, 11:54 AM   #19158
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Old 04-30-2012, 10:00 PM   #19159
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One young man made eyes at her, joking
He reckoned her fire needed stoking
She was certainly witty
And showed him her kitty
But told him it wasn't for poking.

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"Don't enter that door!" said the duke
My squire is having a puke!
He ate something iffy
And it wasn't Jiffy
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"Don't enter that door!" said the duke
My squire is having a puke!
He ate something iffy
And it wasn't Jiffy
Besides he's just wearing a tuque

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"M'Lady's so fat it's absurd!
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"Gadzooks!" said Lord Ashton the Third.
"M'Lady's so fat it's absurd!
She can't get her corset
To fit and must force it
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"Good grief!" said the milliner's wife.
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"And seasoned it, too
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"Good grief!" said the milliner's wife.
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The best tasting hat of my life!"


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But what good is that?
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