| Listen to my tale of woe
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| It’s terribly sad, but true
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| All dressed up, no place to go
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| Each ev’ning I’m awfully blue
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| I know I’m a winsome miss
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| I must win some handsome guy
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| Can’t go on like this
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| I could blossom out I know
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| With somebody just like you
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| So
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| Oh, sweet and lovely lady, be good
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| Oh, lady, be good to me
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| I am so awf’ly misunderstood
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| So lady, be good to me
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| Oh, please have some pity
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| I’m all alone in this big city
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| I tell you I’m just a lonesome babe in the wood
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| So lady be good to me
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| (bis)
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| Oh lady be good to me |