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    Originally Posted By mickey_ring

    correct! I like the Wallflowers version of it.
     
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    Originally Posted By MissCandice

    Duh, I thought this was from a tv show, that this was the Theme Song topic. Hence my strange last question,lol.
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    I don't think we've had this one before:

    "Johnny's in the basement,
    Mixing up the medicine.
    I'm on the pavement,
    Thinking 'bout the government.
    The man in the trenchcoat,
    Badge out, laid off,
    Says he's got a bad cough,
    Wants to get it paid off."
     
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    Originally Posted By mickey_ring

    The Homesick Blues?
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    Very nearly.
     
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    Originally Posted By mickey_ring

    The Subterranian Homesick Blues?
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    Yes.
     
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    Originally Posted By mickey_ring

    She got the power to be
    The power to give
    The power to see yeah yeah,
    She got the power to be
    The power to give
    The power to see...
     
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    Originally Posted By christiemarsh88

    "Suddenly I See"
     
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    Originally Posted By mickey_ring

    correct!
     
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    Originally Posted By christiemarsh88

    "My man wouldn't give me no breakfast
    Wouldn't give me no dinner
    Squawked about my supper then he put me outdoors
    Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes
    I didn't have so many, but still I had a long, long way to go"
     
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    Originally Posted By christiemarsh88

    The singer's very famous, and her name is in the title of the song. Here are a few more lyrics:

    "Some men like me 'cause I'm happy,
    Some 'cause I'm snappy
    Some say I'm funny,
    Others think I've got money"
     
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    Originally Posted By MissCandice

    I am stumped.
     
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    Originally Posted By christiemarsh88

    It's from 1936, if that gives you any help.
     
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    Originally Posted By christiemarsh88

    It was "Billie's Blues" by Billie Holiday. How 'bout this one instead?

    "Orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages
    And the zoo keeper is very fond of rum"
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    Simon & Garfunkee ;-)
    "At the Zoo"?
     
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    Originally Posted By christiemarsh88

    Yep!
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    "Saturday night I was downtown,
    Working for the FBI.
    Sitting in a nest of bad men,
    Whiskey bottles piling high."
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Long Cool (or is it Tall?) Woman in a Black Dress?
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    It's cool. Your turn.
     

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