Key: E
Introduction:
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She mesmerizes with a smile
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Dark eyes as compelling as the bourbon
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That girl in the canary yellow dress
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Says yes
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She flips a pack of cigarettes
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He doesn't smoke, but he takes one nonetheless
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It helps to keep his motives true, the girl was blue
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What else is the poor boy supposed to do
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She bounces like a flame,
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clothes on her
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Eyes closed Yellow dress
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Runs and swirls
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It's late, the hour's growing horns
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The band seems to draw her ever closer
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This girl gets right down in the groove, grooves a move
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Leads him out to where they play the blues
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She dances like a flame
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Has no cares, yellow-dressed flame
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Eyes closed, arms above
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She shakes pearls and snakes
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Too late in this folie a troix
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He sees that the heart is pounding for
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Big daddy who falls down to his knees, begging her please
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Lifts his sax, says "here's my little tease"
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Her dancing sets the place on fire
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Heaven and hell
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The flames come up his spine
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As she shakes, whirls and snakes