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Verse 1
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"Well, good for you.
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A bowling alley and lunch counterFilled
Verse 2
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a slant across the street.
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And next door when So- and- So's men would come in,
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every time.
Guns under the counter every time.
Guns under the counter every time,
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And bowling on the second floor.
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Very often he was there himself,
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And I, of course,
to be captain of the Morton girls bowling team?
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Though I don't attach much importance to that now,
or then,
And back to guns under the counter,
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Guns un der the counter every time.
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Guns under the counter,
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Verse 5
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I never liked Douglas park,
And no one likes it now,
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But that's neither here nor there. (There,
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West of Crawford, where it is I stayed,
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Chicago straights
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But it was down on the south side,
Verse 6
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That one day (Now I wasn't there,
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We were in Davenport at that time),
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Some north side Irish bullets came
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zipping through that window.
In Cicero,
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Never stand at a window!
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hind the counter,
And you could smell the boiled cabbage
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on those bullets!
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One of them managed to hit a young
Wouldn't you know it.
Dr. Peter Pane
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He took some special blackberry
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filling right out of his lunch bag
man's wound.
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You see, Dr. Peter Pane was an interesting man,
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And an even more interesting doctor,
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As he would use no mater
ial or remedy
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That wasn't used in the manufacture of his doughnuts,
Down on 82nd and
Kedzie with his brother.
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But he tempered this by the fact that he would rarely use in
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gredients that didn't have some medicinal purpose.
Or so he thought.
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They have confectioner's sugar
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kill typhus!
It could set back glaucoma.
You didn't need stitches!
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The same special blackberry filling that was ap
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Blackberry filling that came straight from Dr. Peter Pane's lunch bag.
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Verse 8
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And I once kept a jackrabbit
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On a fine fall day.
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And I'd look up at the sky
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And down at the river.
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But Davenport changed its
So to speak,
And we had to go to Chicago to move in with
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my aunt.
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