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She said, I’ll forgive you frankie,
She said, I’ll forgive you not, not
For killin’ my lovin’ son johnny,
He’s the only support that I’ve got,
’cause you shot my man and he was doin’ you wrong.

Well the last time I seen frankie
She was a-sittin’ in a dungeon cell
She would be there moanin’, herself
With no one there to care
She shot her man, a he’d been doin’ her wrong, so wrong

Van Morrison: Frankie & Johnny

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"The billiard sharp who any one catches,
His doom's extremely hard -
He's made to dwell In a dungeon cell
On a spot that's always barred;
And there he plays extravagant matches
In fitless finger-stalls
On a cloth untrue,
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls!"

G&S: The Mikado

Edit: Assume this entry is a discursive side-bar (in the same key) so eta's continuation runs true.

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Go! Go! Go, Johnny, go! Go!
Go, Johnny, go! Go!
Go, Johnny, go! Go!
Go, Johnny, go! Go! Johnny B. Goode

Chuck Berry


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Me oh my, I loved him so
breaks my heart to see him go
dee dum dum dee dee dee dum dum dum
Johnny has gone for a soldier

Folksong fragment

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Ooo
Soldier Blue, Soldier Blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her

Buffy Ste. Marie

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Well they all said Louise was not half bad
It was written on the walls and window shades
And how she'd act a little girl
A deceiver, don't believe her, that's her trade
Sometimes a bottle of perfume
Flowers and maybe some lace
Men brought Louise ten cent trinkets
Their intentions were easily traced
Yes and everybody knew at times she cried
Ah but women like Louise well they get by

Louise-Leo Kotke version

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This desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

And as she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realise that nothing's as it seems

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand

Sting: Desert Rose

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My heart have been broken
And all my love's in vain
Because the peoples always told me
That a woman is the glory of a man.

If you whoop her when she needs it
The judge will not let you explain
Because he believes in justice
And a woman is the glory of a man.

I rather be tired out on the desert
or right out in the falling rain
Than to lose my baby
Because she is the glory of a man.


All My Love In Vain
______________________ Sonny Boy Williamson

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I can turn a gray sky blue.
I can make it rain , whenever I want it to.
Oh, I
I can build a castle from a single grain of sand.
I can make a ship sail, uh, on dry land.

But my life is incomplete and I'm so blue. 'Cause I can't get next to you.

I can't get next to you, babe. (Next to you)
I can't get next to you. (I just can't get next you)

Can't Get Next To You-Al Green version (playing as I type this)

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Come Sail Away

A gathering of angels appeared above my head
They sang to me this song of hope, and this is what they said
They said come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me

dennis deyoung (Styx)


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