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  • I asked the Zebra:
    Are you black with white stripes?
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • (Daddy what if the sun stop shinin' what would happen then?)
    If the sun stopped shinin' you'd be so surprised
    21 lines
  • There was a girl named Abigail
    Who was taking a drive
    38 lines
  • The morning sun touched lightly on
    The eyes of Lucy Jordan
    48 lines
  • Have you seen Amanda Blaine in the hills of Shiloh
    Wandering through the morning rain through the hills of Shiloh
    19 lines
  • Now you know some fellahs, they want fame and fortune
    Yeah, and other fellahs they just wanna swing
    66 lines
  • I knew that she belonged to someone else at the time,
    But lonesome-lookin' women are a weakness of mine;
    16 lines
  • She was dancin' when I seen her, in a Mexican cantina
    In a neighborhood they call "La Zona Roja".
    17 lines
  • In the laid back California town of sunny San Raphael
    Lived a girl named Pearly Sweetcake,
    58 lines
  • Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window
    Hey Nelly Nelly look at what I see
    34 lines
  • Big Barney Fitch, he got soddenly rich
    He got a big fancy house in Melbourne
    38 lines
  • No I do not want a kitten,
    No cute, cuddly kitty-poo,
    20 lines
  • I have nothing to put in my stew, you see,
    Not a bone or a bean or a black-eyed pea,
    14 lines
  • Agatha Fry, she made a pie
    And Christopher John helped bake it
    14 lines
  • CHORUS
    We'll drink a drink adrink
    69 lines
  • Fell asleep last night with the TV on,
    Oh, what a dream I had.
    52 lines
  • 'Twas sunset down in old Key West
    The locals all were high.
    106 lines, 1 comment
  • In the laid back California town of sunny San Raphael
    Lived a girl named Pearly Sweetcake you probly knew her well
    67 lines
  • (Chorus)
    Pour me another tequila, Sheila.
    41 lines
  • I've got a couple more years on you, baby...that's all.
    I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall.
    21 lines
  • They're buildin' the gallows outside my cell.
    I got 25 minutes to go.
    76 lines
  • Did you hear bout Stacy brown (no we didn't but we'd like to)
    He had every chick in town (no he didn't but he tried to)
    25 lines
  • Oh if you read in the papers that she's been seen
    A gettin' in an out of some millionare's long custom made limousine
    22 lines
  • Now, listen to me, folks...
    Hear what I say.
    74 lines
  • Oh they won't let us show it at the beach no they won't let us show it at the beach
    They think we're gonna grab it if it gets within
    21 lines
  • It was Sat night at the slammer the gavel was falling like a hammer
    As they dragged in every freak from off the road
    30 lines
  • Well I've told you someday I'd have a lotta money
    And you would see me grinnin' from ear to ear
    21 lines
  • Well I've been spendin' my life lookin' for a shoulder
    To rest my head when the nights get colder
    23 lines
  • Now I was hangin' round Nashville writin' songs and playin' 'em for all of the stars
    Watchin' 'em laugh and hand 'em back livin' on h
    34 lines
  • Ko-we-ha Gemini Jim taw Scorpio Salo
    Taw sejno-nej-o-to-kono o-ha-na-shi-te-saw
    22 lines
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