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The Romance of David and Michelle

She's fat and she's ugly and she smokes and she smells and she scares all the children on the street Every child runs to hide when she screams, when she yells but a man down the block thinks she's sweet. He's old and he's dirty and he lives all alone and he suffers from a dread disease The sight of this woman makes him sigh, makes him moan and he don't give a damn about her fleas. While scrounging through the dump for a new set of threads They per chance came to meet eye to eye With smiles on their lips and music in their heads They felt nearly young enough the fly high. Now they live in a trailer on the back of a lot and if you have no cotton in your ears You can hear the echoes of the fights they have fought so they lived ever happy through the years. -1968

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