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Introducción:
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She's the Queen of the Silver Dollar, she rules this smokey kingdom,
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her scepter is a wine glass and a bar stool is her thr……one.
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Now the jesters flock around her, tryin’ to win her favors,
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to see which one will take the Queen of the Silver Dollar home.
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She arrives in all her splendor each night at nine o'clock,
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her chariot is the crosstown bus that stops right down the block.
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Now the old piano minstrel plays her tune as she walks in,
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and the Queen of the Silver Dollar's home again.
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Now her royal dress is satin, it's shabby and it's torn,
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the royal jewels are rhinestones and the shoes are scuffed and worn.
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On the many roads she's been down, and the places that she's seen,
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they all look at her and say, “ God save the Queen".
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Now the Queen of the Silver Dollar is not as haughty as she seems,
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she was once an ordinary girl with ordinary dreams.
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But there's a man who found her, and he brought her to this world,
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he's the one who made a queen of a simple country girl.