| Rita spits out her laurel leaf and grabs a piece of my pie
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| She’s gonna lead me up the mountain path, as the crows fly
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| Claudette’s pretty quick off the mark, like a Polaris missile in heat
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| She smiles at a hundred miles an hour and rush you off your feet
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| There’s all these a-friends of mine, uh, they’ve got me suffering
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| They don’t take a line, uh, they keep me pissing adrenalin
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| Ratty is a-nearly unique, looks like a Pre-Raphaelite barb freak, uh
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| Wears dangerous jewelry, got a cast iron personality
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| Sandie wears an awful lot of silk, says she’s a friend of Mr. Acker Bilk
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| She’s going out of my mind, uh, wants to live on milk
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| There’s all these a-friends of mine, uh, they’ve got me suffering
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| They don’t take a line, uh, they keep me pissing adrenalin
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| I was musing on the pool outdoors, about foreign matters and fancy affairs
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| While Betty trimmed my nails with pliers while eating avocado pears
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| Norman’s sobbing 'cause his make-up's a-run away with itself
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| He’s heading for an early grave, scared to death about the state of his health
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| There’s all these a-friends of mine, uh, they’ve got me suffering
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| They don’t take a line, uh, they keep me pissing adrenalin
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| They keep me pissing adrenalin, uh
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| They see me in the shape I’m in, they bug me in the shape I’m in
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| They see me suffering, they see me suffering
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| Suffering, suffering, suffering, and then |