Key: G major•
Verse 1
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Mountains.
This song is a murder ballad
which concerns a girl who
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from which she could not extract
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herself easily
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who was also involved in the situation.
her situation becomes more and
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more and more evident.
Finally, her mother comes up to her
and approaches her as only
Little Romy, she says,
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Look, if you don't want to do anything about it,
your father and I will do something
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about it.
And she said, Mother, please,
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So then, so then, so then, after that,
she went up to her boyfriend,
whose name was
come, let us be married.
Too long we have
tarried, obviously.
And he said, okay, okay then,
meet me down by the river.
So she met him down by the
river
and it was very beautiful
and sylvan down by the river.
big overstuffed leather chairs
with little cat tails growing
up in between them
sitting around
on the great big footstools
and the big leather chairs
and they were doing little nice things.
were playing pinochle and bridge
and everybody was just kind
of sitting around.
and then also the people
had brought little lunches
like little thermos bottles
full of garbanzo beans
and hot chocolate and stuff to
sup upon
while they were there in the place
and little sandwiches made out of bacon,
lettuce, tomato and raisins
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with the crusts cut off
and huge jars full of mayonnaise
and tootsie rolls on and on they went, ate
and drank and were merry
a fat pink cloud hung overhead
and everyone was
extremely happy
and pleasant feeling
and he beat her to death
and threw her in the river
which was kind of his way of dealing with
it
since he hadn't been to
college
or learned a craft or anything to do
so now ladies and gentlemen we
have this song
the name of it is the a
ballad of Little Oma Wise
the way she did
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Verse 2
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Well, you promised to meet me
Well, no money, no money
He said, jump up behind me
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And away we will ride
And Sush jumped up behind him
He said, get you down, Romy
Oh, and he kicked her
and he cuffed her
Now Romy was missing,
And then I spoke to my mother,
Well, a debt to the devil
Outro 1
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