Key: C minor
Verse 1
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There once
was a girl named Jenny
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Whose virtues were varied and many
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Accepting that she was in clined
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Al ways to make up her mind
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And Jenny points a moral
With which we cannot quarrel,
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as you will find.
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Jenny made her mind up
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when she was three.
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She herself was going to trim
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the Christmas tree.
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Christmas Eve she lit the candles
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through the tapers away.
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Little Jenny was an orphan
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on Christmas Day.
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Jenny made her mind up
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when she was twelve.
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That into foreign languages
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she would delve.
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But at seventeen to Vassar
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it was quite a blow,
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and in twenty -seven languages
she couldn't say no
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Poor Jenny, bright as a penny,
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her equal would be hard to find
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To Jenny I'm beholden,
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her heart was big and golden,
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but she wouldn't make up her mind
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In foreign languages she couldn't say no
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Jenny made her mind up at 22
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To get herself a husband
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was the thing to do
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So she got herself all dolled up
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in her satins and furs
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She got herself a husband,
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but he wasn't hers
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Jenny made her mind up at 39
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She would take a trip to the Argentine
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She was only on vacation,
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but the Latins agree
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Jennie was the one
who started the good neighbor policy
Poor Jennie, bright as a penny
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Her equal would be hard to find
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But passion doesn't vanish
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In Portuguese or Spanish
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And she wouldn't make up her mind
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She instituted the good neighbor policy
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Jennie made her mind up at 75
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She would live to be the
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oldest woman alive
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But gin and rum and whiskey
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play such funny tricks
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And 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 quarrel
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Makes a lot of common sense
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Jenny and her saga prove
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that you are gaga
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If you don't keep sitting
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on the fence
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Jenny and her story point the way
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to glory to all men and womankind
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Anyone with vision
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comes to this decision
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Don't make up,
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you shouldn't make up,
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you mustn't make up, or never make up
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Anyone with vision
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comes to this decision
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Don't make me a fool,
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you're not!
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