| It’s a fact I can’t avoid
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| I’m in love, I’m in love with Marie Lloyd
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| (He's in love with Marie Lloyd)
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| And I know that if she knew
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| She would feel, she would feel the same way too
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| (She would feel the same way too)
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| Her backstage security
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| Have got their beady eye on me
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| Whenever I try to see her
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| I get thrown out on my ear
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| She loves a boy in the gallery
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| I know that she means me
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| I wait to give her flowers
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| By the stage door for hours
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| And hours
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| And hours
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| And hours
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| And hours
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| And hours
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| And hours
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| It’s a fact I can’t avoid
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| I’m in love, I’m in love with Marie Lloyd
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| (He's the man she can’t avoid)
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| And I know that if she knew
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| She would feel, she would feel the same way
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| (I'm not sure she agrees with you)
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| I’m banned from every music hall where Marie treads the boards
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| And now I wear disguises just to get through the front door
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| And when she appears I try to storm the stage and kiss her
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| But every time so far the in-house bouncers have been quicker
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| They’re quicker
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| They’re quicker
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| They’re quicker
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| They’re quicker
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| They’re quicker
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| The bouncers have been quicker, yeah
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| If only I could meet her, she’d see that I’m not some crazy fan
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| (You're not gonna meet her, her agent’s got a plan)
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| She’d see that I’m her soulmate, I’m not just some random crazy man
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| (Marie, looks like you’re gonna have to go round the back again tonight love)
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| I’ve showered her with letters and gifts and trinkets and flowers,
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| she’s never once responded. |
| She’s turned her back on us. |
| It’s like she’s
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| forgotten the people who put her there, her fans. |
| I even got her a puppy,
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| a puppy in a basket with a bow in its hair. |
| I suppose I’ll have to go drown
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| that in the Thames now. |
| I mean, what’s her problem? |
| What is her problem? |