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Introduction:
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Listen to my tale of woeit's terribly sad but true
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All dressed up, no place to go each evening I'm awfully blue
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I must win some handsome guy can't go on like this
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I could blossom out, I know, with somebody just like you, so
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Oh, sweet and lovely lady, be good
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Oh, lady, be good to me
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I am so awfly misunderstood,
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So lady be good to me
Bridge
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Oh, please have some pity
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I'm all alone in this big city
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I tell you
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I'm just a lonesome babe in the wood
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So lady, be good to me
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