Tonalidad: D minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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There's
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a place your mother goes
When everybody else is
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soundly sleeping
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Through the lights of beacon street
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And if you listen you
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can hear her weeping
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She's weeping
Verse 2
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'Cause the gentlemen are calling
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And the snow is softly falling
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On her petticoats
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And she's standing in the harbor
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And she's waiting for the sailors
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In the jolly boat
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See how they approach?
Verse 3
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With dirty hands and trousers torn
They grapple 'til she's
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safe within their keeping
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A gag is placed between her lips
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To keep her sorry tongue from any speaking
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Verse 4
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And they row her out to packets
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Where the sailor's sorry racket
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Calls for maidenhead
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And she's scarce above the gunwales
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When her clothes fall to a bundle
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And she's laid in bed
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On the upper deck
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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And so she goes from ship to ship
Her ankles clasped,
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her arms so rudely pinioned
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'Til at last she's satisfied
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The lot of the marina's teeming minions
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In their opinions
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Verse 6
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And they tell her not to say a thing
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To cousin, kindred, kith or kin
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Or she'll end up dead
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And they throw her thirty dollars
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And return her to the harbor
Where she goes to bed
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And this is how your fed
Verse 7
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So be kind to your mother
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Though she may seem an awful bother
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And the next time she tries to feed
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you collard greens
Verse 8
Remember what she does when you're asleep
Remember what she does when you're asleep
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