Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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There once
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was a girl named Jenny,
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whose virtues were varied in many,
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Accepting that she was inclined
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Always to make up her mind
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An d Jenny plants a morrow
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With which you cannot grow
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As you will find
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Jenny made her mind
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She herself was go ing to
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Christmas Eve she lit the candles,
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tossed the tapers away.
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Little Jenny was an orphan
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on Christmas Day.
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Oh, Jenny, bright as a penny,
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her equal would be hard to find.
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She lost one dad, another,
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a sister and a brother,
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But she would make up her mind.
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That in two foreign lan guages
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she would delve.
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But at seventeen, to Versa,
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it was quite a blow,
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That in twenty -seven languages
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she couldn't say no.
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Oh, Jenny,
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bright as a penny,
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her equal would be hard to find.
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To Jenny, unbeholden,
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her heart was big and golden,
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but she would make up her mind.
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at twenty -t wo,
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was the thing to do.
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She got herself all dolled up
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in her saddens and furs,
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and she got herself her husband,
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but he wasn't yours.
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Poor Jenny, bright as a penny,
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to find.
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Deserved a bed of roses,
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but history discloses
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that she would make up
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her mind.
She would take a trip
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to the Argentine
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She was only on vacation
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but the Ladins agreed
the good neighbour
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policy
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Oh, Jenny, bright as a penny
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Her equal would be hard to find
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Her passion doesn't van
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ish in Portuguese or Spanish,
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but she would make up her mind.
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Jenny made her mind up at
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fifty -one.
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She would write her memoirs
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The very day a book was published,
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there were wives who
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in some thirty -three states.
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Poor Jenny, bright as a penny,
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her equal would be hard
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to find.
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She could give thousands of babies
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to many other ladies,
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her mind.
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Jenny made her mind up at 75,
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she would live to be the oldest woman alive. Now
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Gene and Drum and Destiny play funny tricks
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An d poor Jenny kicked the bucket
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at seventy -six
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Jenny points a morrow
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with which you cannot borrow
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Makes a lot of common sense
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Jenny and Tasaka prove
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that you're a clogger
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Journey and a story, find the way to glory
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To all men and all mankind
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Anyone with vision
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comes to this solution
you shouldn't make up
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mind
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