Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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Tell you about them sobbin' women
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Who lived in the Roman days
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It seems that they all went
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swimmin'
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While their men was off to graze
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Well, a Roman troop was ridin' by
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And saw them in their mi -o -mi
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So they took them all back home to dry
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At least that's what Plutarch says
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Oh, yes, them wo men was sobbin',
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sobbin', sobbin'
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Fit to be tied
Every muscle was throbbin',
throbbin'
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From that riotous ride
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Seems they cried and kissed
and kissed and cried
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All over that Roman countryside
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So don't forget that
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When you're taking a bride
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Sob and fit to be tied
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From that ri otous ride
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They never did return their plunder
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The victor gets all the loot
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They carried them home by
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thun der
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Two rotundas, small but cute
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And you never seen, so they tell me,
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such downright do mesticity
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With a Roman baby on each knee
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named Claudius and Brut
Oh yes, and the women was sobbing, sobbing,
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sobbing, passing them nights
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While the Romans was going out,
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hobnobbing, stagnafights
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They kept occupied by sowing
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lots of little old toggies
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for them tots and saying
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Someday, women folk
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shall have rights
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Pressin' over their backs
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Just soin'
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While the Romans had fights
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Now when the menfolk
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went to fetch them
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The women would not be fetched
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It seems when the Romans
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catch them
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Their lady friends they catch
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Right! Now let this be, because it's true
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A lesson to the likes of you
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Rough them up like them their Romans do
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Or else they'll think you're tenched
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Oh, yes, that moment was sobbing, sobbing,
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sobbing, pockets of tears.
Mighty sad.
Unaccountable, daubing, daubing,
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wriggly, rattled their ears.
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And that ain't all. they ac
ted angry and annoyed.
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But secretly, they was overjoyed.
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You might recall that when
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corralling your steers.
Oh, oh, oh,
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oh, them poor little dears.
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Oh, yes, that moment was sobbing,
sobbing,
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Oh, yes, them sovereign women
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Oh, yes, them sovereign women
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Oh, yes, them sovereign women
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And though they'll be a sov
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ereign for a while
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We're gonna make them
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sovereign women
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smile
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