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i was of poor folk, but my mother had a rabbit fur coat
I was of poor folk,
but my mother had a rabbit fur coat.
And a girl of less character pushed her down the LA river.
"Hand over that rabbit fur coat"
She put a knife to her throat
'Hand over that rabbit fur coat'
When my ma refused, the girl kicked dirt on her blouse.
"Stay away from my mansion house."
My mother really suffered for that.
Spent her life in a gold plated body cast.
Now, you ask, did she get that girl back?
She payed a visit to that mansion house.
She knew the girl was not there,
but her father was in cufflinks with slicked-back black hair
He invited her in. They never sang a note,
but she took off that rabbit fur coat.
And who do you think came home?
Miss So and So
She took one look at my mama and what did she say?
"Why are you stealing from my mansion house?"
"No, I'm in love with Mr. So and So
He invited me in. I'm a girl no more."
Then she dragged my ma out by her throat.
"Hand over that rabbit fur coat."
Let's move ahead twenty years, shall we?
She was waitressing on welfare. We were living in the Valley.
A lady says to my ma "you treat your girl as your spouse.
You can live in a mansion house."
And so we did,
When I was old enough to realize; wiped the dust from my mother's eyes
It's all this for that rabbit fur coat.
But I'm not bitter about it
I've packed up my things and let them have at it,
and the fortune faded, as fortunes often do,
and so did that mansion house.
Where my ma is now, I don't know.
She was living in her car. I was living on the road,
and I hear she's putting that stuff up her nose,
and still wearing that rabbit fur coat.
But mostly I'm a hypocrite
I sing songs about the defecit,
but when I sell out and leave Omaha,
what will I get?
a mansion house and a rabbit fur coat.
:D The End. this song is amazing.