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Verse 1
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Who's
that running down the alley
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in the dead of Fri day night
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in the inky slinky light
Why, of course, it's good ol' Gary
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leaping over someone's fence
He likes going out to parties,
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he likes be ing and Rolling Stone,
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so I guess we should have known.
He likes warm and willing women,
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he likes be ing where they are,
he couldn't dance,
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So he went into the politics game,
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yes, he went into the politics game.
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Lookie, you can get a lot of nookie
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if you get into the politics
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Help me sing it now.
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Guess he went into the politics game.
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Oh, he went into the politics game.
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Lookie, you can get a lot of nookie
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If you get into the politics
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game.
When he landed in the Senate,
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Gary started making hay.
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That came his way.
He liked taking a position,
Kennedy was Gary's hero
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and even how he wore his hair.
But the thing that thrilled him
most
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So he went into the politics game
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Oh, he went into the politics game
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Warren Beatty told him, lookie,
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If you get into the politics game
He met her at a party
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she was pure Miami Vice
She thought he was Gary Collins
and the rest is history
him making whoopie
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but now he's gone to find some peace
He's gone back to Colorado
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And then just as soon as
he gets horny
And he'll be running in
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the politics game.
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He'll be run ning in the politics game.
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Warren Beatty, tall and looky,
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you can get a lot done
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game.
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Thank you. There was an interview at that time in the paper with Gary
Hart's campaign manager was asked for his reaction to the song
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taste.
Well, as I told him in the first house,
I never imagined to be
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singing this song
so far from Manhattan.
that it just wouldn't translate elsewhere,
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you see, but how wrong I was. What happened was that my wife and I sublet an apartment
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on the west side of Manhattan for a year,
and it was a neighborhood
heavily populated
couples.
The men all wore, you know,
wide red suspenders,
and the women all wore severe
three -piece suits and sneakers,
and and they made, you know,
pots and pots of money
which they spent with exquisite taste.
And the main thing was I didn't dare go
out of the house for a newspaper
for fear of being trampled
by them
on their way to the next million, you know.
And I thought, well, there's a song, and I wrote it,
and thought, as I say, that it would only be a local issue
but then as I experimented with singing
the song elsewhere
I found to my horror
that the rot had spread until by now
they infest every nook
nay every cranny of American life
with the single notable exception
they tell me of Santa Monica
California can can this
be so I asked myself
or or is it rather a case
of with just a place name change
or two we might have a Tragic ballad.
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