Bettina

She was my neighbor in the EPA,

smoked a pack on Menthols almost every day.

And in the morning we would hear her croon

as she coughed up her lungs outside our bedroom

She said, My name is Bettina

Yeah, but you can call me Betty

and when you gonna give me some liquor already?

do do dodo dodo do dodo do do..

She had a short term memory,

I know because she'd always ask me

The same questions again and again

like, when you gonna let me sit in with your band?

She said, my name is Bettina

Yeah, but you can call me Betty

and when you gonna give me some liquor already?

do do dodo dodo do dodo do do..

It was the chapest rent we could find

in East Palo Alto, double wind

Houses built to the new

but they weren't goin' anywhere anytime soon

She had a bind on her finger tip

from trying to feed a squirrel with corn chip

I think about her every once in a while

and whenever I do, it always makes me smile

She said, My name is Bettina

Yeah, but you can call me Betty

She said, My name is Bettina

and is you need me I'll be ready

She said, My name is Bettina

Yeah, but you can call me Betty

and when you gonna have me over

for some liquor already?

do do dodo dodo do dodo do do..