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Sadness

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Sadness

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Sadness come to my house

with a stinking bouquet,

smiled with her thin gray lips

and said, "Honey, I'm home to stay."

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And I said,

"Go away and leave me alone.

Go away and leave me."

She handed me rotgut whiskey

and a lit cigarette,

danced all around my room and said,

"Are we having fun yet?"

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She took off her party dress

and her tear stained brassiere,

came so close I could smell her

and said "Kiss me here and here."

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She lay down on my bed

and open her thin legs,

raised up her arms and said,

"Honey, I ain't too proud to beg."

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She said, "Don't you remember

what you did to that one, to the other one, too?

Well, I've just come to do exactly

the very same thing to you."

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I said, "I'm gonna get out my shotgun.

I'm gonna get out my Bowie knife -

and if you don't clear on outta here,

I'll kill you within an inch of your life."

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She said, "Honey, I've come to love you.

I'm gonna hook you 'til you burn -

and then I'll go and you will never know

just when I may return."

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I will go out in the mountains,

way out in the desert somewhere,

where the sun shines down on rocks and bushes

and there ain't no Sadness there.

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