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Intro

Now one day I saw in Gerona by a river so quiet and remote,
Eight lovely girls from the college, they were all in the same boat.
And as they rode in unison by me, I gallantly raised my hat,
And I said with a sigh, "I wish that I could stroke a crew just like that."

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Oh, but I'm flying south for the summer, I'm gonna follow the sun,
I'm flying south for the summer now the mating season's begun.

Now outside a bar in Toledo, where Marie had had more than her fill,
A man stood rotating a chicken on a flaming-hot infrared grill.
Now she staggered up to him and she shouted, with a voice just like a town crier,
She said, "Señor, your barrel organ is broken, what's more your monkey's on fire."

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Big Anna from Lisbon once ordered a steak weighing nine and a quarter pound,
The butcher, he said, "Will you take it, ma'am, or shall I send it 'round?"
She said, "No, I just wanna look at it 'cause I've been dieting like a chump,
And that's what I've lost and I just wanna see what it looks like in one lump."

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With Melina I stood on a bus from Marseilles, she was hanging on tight by the strap,
When she let her pretty white hanky fall on a sleeping old gentleman's lap.
Now, when he awoke from his slumber he saw everyone staring at him,
And thinking it was his shirt tail he slyly tucked it in.

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