Key: F minor•
Intro 1
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Well
Verse 1
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ain't no trade out on the streets,
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Half past the unlucky,
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Dressed in full orchestration,
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stage- door Johnny's got to pay,
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And sen t him home talking 'bout the one
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that got away
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Could have been on Easy Street,
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With irons in the fire and all
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But the last of the big- time losers shouted
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before he drove away,
"I'll be right back,
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as soon as I crack the one that got away"
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Well, the ambulance drivers,
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They just want to get off work, and
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The short stop and the victim are
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already gone berserk
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And the shroud- tailor measures
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him for a deep- six holiday,
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The stiff is froze, the case is closed on the one that got away
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Now Jim Crow's directing traffic with
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them cemetery blues,
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With them peculiar- looking trousers,
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them old Italian shoes
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And a wooden kimono that was all ready
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to drop in San Francisco Bay
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But he's mumbling something all
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about the one that got away
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And Costello was the champion
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at the St. Moritz Hotel,
And the best this side of Fairfax,
reliable sources tell
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But his reputation is at large,
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and he's at Ben Frank's every day,
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Waiting for the one that got away
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He got a snakeskin sportshirt, and
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he looks like Vincent Price,
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With a little piece of chicken,
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an d he's carving off a slice
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Someone tipped her off,
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and she'll be doing a Houdini now any day
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She shook his hustle, and a Greyhound
bus'll take the one that got away
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Well, Andre's at the piano behind
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the Ivar in the sewers,
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and a fin for guided tours
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He could- a been in "Casablanca",
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he stood in line out there all day
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Now he's spilling whiskey and learning songs about a one that got away
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Well I've lost my equilibrium and my
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car keys and my pride,
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The tattoo par lor's warm,
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"What you want that thing to say?"
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I says, "Just don't misspell her name, buddy, she's the one that got away"
Outro 1
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