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The Ballad of Alice & Kitty

from Our American Cousin by Cousin Dud

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Don’t trust Alice when she tells you she’s from Dallas, she’s from San Antonio. Works in a diner but she’ll swear that nothing’s finer than living on the road. Says she went to college but she never really flowered, so she had to move back home. It’ll all seem so fake, but she’ll say she’s glad you made it as she pours your cup of joe. And with her heart lodged into the old cement garages of the friends that she has known, she will cry down to her children at the playground and tell ‘em mother wants them home. She says if only you knew my friends.

Don’t hear Kitty when she says she’s from the city, she grew up on a farm
She’s cute and trendy and she’s always more than friendly but she means to do you harm
With legal fees and ugly bruises on her knees she’ll be relying on her charm
She’ll kiss your neck and blast your favorites from her tape deck but its only to disarm
And with her heart ploughed into the old abandoned silos of the people she has known
She will cry out to the pigeons in the hay mow and tell ‘em mother wants them home.


So don’t trust Alice when she says she’s off to Dallas, she’ll be in Cleveland for a while
She’s always broke and her new kitchen floors have ochre colored linoleum tile
There’s nothing funny ‘bout the things she’ll do for money but it always makes you smile
Ain’t hard to sell and it’s a ticket straight to hell but you’ll be goin’ there in style
And with her heart slouched into the torn and dirty couches from the parties she has thrown
She will cry down to the burnouts on the church grounds and tell ‘em mother wants them home.

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from Our American Cousin, released December 11, 2010

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