| It happened down at the Golden Gate
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| A fool there was, and her name was Kate
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| She went and found herself a mate
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| And she suffered ever after
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| Of millionaires she had her pick
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| But she played herself a dirty trick
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| When she chose that guy whose name is Slick
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| She’s a sap to love him so
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| Listen to her tale of woe
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| I fetch him slippers
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| Fill up the pipe he smokes
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| I cook the kippers
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| Laugh at his oldest jokes
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| Yet here I anchor
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| I might have had a banker
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| Boy! |
| What love has done to me!
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| His nature’s funny
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| Quarrelsome half the time
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| And as for money
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| He hasn’t got a dime
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| And here’s the joker
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| I might have had a broker
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| Boy! |
| What love has done to me!
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| When a guy looks my way
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| Does he get emphatic?
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| Say he gets dramatic
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| I just want to fly away
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| But if I left him I’d be all at sea
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| I’m just a slavey, life is a funny thing
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| He’s got the gravy, I got a wedding ring
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| And still I love him
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| There’s nobody above him
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| Boy! |
| What love has done to me!
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| (scat break)
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| His brains are minus
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| Never a thought in sight
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| And yet His Highness
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| Lectures me day and night
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| Oh, where was my sense
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| To sign that wedding license?
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| Boy! |
| What love has done to me!
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| My life he’s wrecking
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| Bet you could find him now
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| Out somewhere necking
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| Somebody else’s Frau
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| You get to know life
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| When married to a lowlife
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| Boy! |
| What love has done to me!
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| I can’t keep my head up
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| The butcher, the baker
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| All know he’s a faker
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| Brother, I am fed up
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| But I left him he’d be up a tree
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| Where will I wind up
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| I don’t know where I’m at
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| I make my mind up
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| I oughta leave him flat
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| Yet I have grown so
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| I love the dirty so-and-so
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| Boy! |
| What love has done to me! |