The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker

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Dorothy was a waitress... Promenade..night shift
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dish-water blonde tall and fine... a lot of tips
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Text:
Dorothy was a waitress on the promenade
 She worked the night shift
 Dishwater blonde, tall and fine
 She got a lot of tips
 Well, earlier I'd been talkin' stuff
 In a violent room
 Fighting with lovers past
 I needed someone with a quicker wit than mine
 Dorothy was fast
 Well, I ordered
 "Yeah, let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain't 2 hungry"
 Dorothy laughed
 She said "Sounds like a real man 2 me"
 Kinda cute, U wanna take a bath?
 (do you wanna, do you wanna, bath)
 I said "Cool, but I'm leaving my pants on" (she say)
 "Cuz I'm kind of going with someone"
 She said "Sounds like a real man 2 me"
 "Mind if I turn on the radio?"
 "Oh, my favorite song" she said
 And it was Joni singing "Help me I think I'm falling"
 (Ring)
 The phone rang and she said
 "Whoever's calling can't be as cute as U"
 Right then I knew I was through
 (Dorothy Parker was cool)
 My pants where wet, they came off
 But she didn't see the movie
 Cuz she hadn't read the book first
 Instead she pretended she was blind
 An affliction brought on by a witch's curse
 Dorothy made me laugh (ha ha)
 I felt much better so I went back 
 2 the violent room (tell us what U did)
 Let me tell U what I did
 I took another bubble bath with my pants on
 All the fighting stopped
 Next time I'll do it sooner
 This is the ballad of Dorothy Parker
 Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
 Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
 Well

 Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker