Chris De Burgh - Patricia The Stripper

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Dennis is a menace with his 'anyone for tennis?'
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and beseeching me to come and keep the score.
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And Maud say 'Oh Lord, I'm so terribly bored.
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I really can't stand it anymore.'
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I'm going out to dinner with a gorgeous singer
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to a little place I found down by the quay
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her name is Patricia, she calls herself Delicia
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and the reason isn't very hard to see.


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She says 'God made her a sinner just to keep fat man thinner
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as they tumble down in heaps before her feet.
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They hang around in groups like battle weary troops
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one can often see them queue right down the street.
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You see Patricia -or Delicia- not only is a singer
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she also removes all her clothing for
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Patricia is the best   stripper in town.


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    And with a swing of her hips she started to strip
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    to tremendous applause she took of her drawers
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    and with a lick of her lips she undid all her clips
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    and threw it all in the air - ev'rybody stared
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    and as the last piece of clothing fell on the floor
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    the police were banging on the door
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    on a saturday night in nineteen-twentyfour.
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    Take it away boys.

Interlude: F  D7  Gm  C7  F  D7  Gm  C  F

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But poor Patricia was arrested and everyone detested
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the manner in which she was exposed
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later on in court well everybody thought
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a summer run in jail would be proposed.
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But the judge said 'Patricia, or may I say Delicia,
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the facts of this case lie before me case dismissed
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this girl was in her working clothes.



    And with a swing of her hips...
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    and as the last piece of clothing fell on the floor
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    the police were yelling at the door
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    on a saturday night in nineteen-twentyfour -
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    on a saturday night in nineteen-twentyfour.
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    Oh yeah.
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