Key: B
Introduction:
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B A B A
Ladies of leisure, with their eyes on the back roads ---
A4 E A4 E
All looking for strangers, to whom they extend welcomes
B A B
With a smile and a glimpse of pink knees and elbows
A4 E A4 E
Of satin and velvet --- good ladies, good fortune.
F E F E
Ladies. Ladies.
B A B A
They sing of their heroes: of solitary soldiers
A4 E A4 E
Invested in good health and manner most charming.
B A B A
Whose favors are numbered (none the less well intended)
A4 E A4 E
By hours in a minute by those ladies who bless them.
F E
Ladies.