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Artist: Adam Ant
Canonical path: /ant-adam/song-for-ruth-ellis
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Song For Ruth Ellis
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Song For Ruth Ellis
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Modelling and whoring
Pregnancy, abortive
Bad girl of the fifties
Take a legend, death style
Take a legend, death style (wa-ooh)
Take a legend, death style
Ruth smashing the car window
Have a drink of pernod
Give the girl a bullet
Violence in hampstead
Violence in hampstead
Violence in hampstead
Though you killed, you're not to blame, no
You loved so much you killed yourself
Dear ruth, ohh!
Ruthie you are a monroe (mmm...)
And i love your peroxide hair
With you, 'least i know there's no
Celluloid within you (wa-ooh)
Celluloid within you (wa-ooh)
Violence in hampstead
Violence in hampstead
Oooh, ooooh-ooh, wa-oooh
Take a legend, death style
Take a legend, death style
Oooh, oooh, wah-ooh ...
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