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Seeger Peggy
Miscellaneous
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Oh what a lovely wedding,
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Oh what a lovely marriage,
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he never left her alone
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She always wore a high necked
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prone.
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the noise cops come rolling along
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Saw his fist, saw her black eye,
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"Hello, is anything wrong?"
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Casualty always patched her up,
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sent her straight back home
Says, "Our job's to heal the sick
and not to ask how come"
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The GP he was a family man,
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didn't want to intercede
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A bottle of pills, a bit of advice,
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On Saturday he beat his own little wife,
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Sunday he bashed the
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One Monday morning Winnie woke up,
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this union is on the skids
Interlude 1
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A social worker came onto the case,
she found Winnie in tears
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Says, "Y ou're not as bad as some
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loves you, dear"
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housing department turned her
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forms
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"We've just got no place to put you,
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go home"
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to make a long story short
One day Sam went a little too far
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and Winnie took Sam to court
Sam had the shock of his life
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He stood in the dock and he stared at the judge,
can't beat my wife?"
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it was not meant to be
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'Cause the world means it when a man says "Honey,
you belong to
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me"
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Does it only happen to a poor man's wife
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of a so called lower degree?
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Winnie is a lawyer's daughter and Sam
got a Ph. D.
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wo men are one of the props
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Copyright Stormking Music
@marriage @feminist @family @abuse
recorded by Frankie
Armstrong
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