Chris de Burgh – Patricia The Stripper (Guitar)

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Dennis is a menace with his 'anyone for tennis?'

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and beseeching me to come and keep the score

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And Maud say 'Oh Lord, I'm so terribly bored'

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And I really can't stand it anymore

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I'm going out to dinner with a gorgeous singer

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to a little place I found down by the quay

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her name is Patricia, she calls herself Delicia

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and the reason isn't very hard to see

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She says  God made her a sinner just to keep fat men thinner 

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as they tumble down in heaps before her feet

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They hang around in groups like battle weary troops

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one can often see them queue right down the street

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You see Patricia (or Delicia) not only is a singer

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she also removes all her clothing    for

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Patricia is the best   stripper in town

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And with a swing of her hips she started to strip

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to tremendous applause she took off her drawers

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and with a lick of her lips she undid all her clips

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and threw it all in the air and everybody stared

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and as the last piece of clothing fell on the floor

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the police were banging on the door

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on a Saturday night in nineteen-twenty four

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Take it away boys

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But poor Patricia was arrested and everyone detested

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the manner in which she was exposed

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later on in court well everybody thought

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a summer run in jail would be proposed

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But the judge said 'Patricia, or may I say Delicia,

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the facts of this case lie before me --- case dismissed! 

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this girl was in her working clothes

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And with a swing of her hips she started to strip

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to tremendous applause she took off her drawers

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and with a lick of her lips she undid all her clips

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and threw it all in the air and everybody stared

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and as the last piece of clothing fell on the floor

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the police were yelling out for more

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on a Saturday night in nineteen-twenty four -

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on a Saturday night in nineteen-twenty four

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Oh yeah!