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When she said,

 "Don't waste your words, they're just lies,"

 I cried she was deaf.

 And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes,

 Then said, "What else you got left?"

 It was then that I got up to leave

 But she said, "Don't forget,

 Everybody must give something back

 For something they get."

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I stood there and hummed,

 I tapped on her drum and asked her how come.

And she buttoned her boot,

And straightened her suit,

Then she said, "Don't get cute."

 So I forced my hands in my pockets

And felt with my thumbs,

And gallantly handed her

My very last piece of gum.

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 She threw me outside,

 I stood in the dirt where ev'ryone walked.

And after finding I'd

Forgotten my shirt,

I went back and knocked.

 I waited in the hallway, she went to get it,

 And I tried to make sense

Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair

That leaned up against . . .

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 Her Jamaican rum

 And when she did come, I asked her for some.

She said, "No, dear."

I said, "Your words aren't clear,

You'd better spit out your gum."

She screamed till her face got so red

 Then she fell on the floor,

And I covered her up and then

Thought I'd go look through her drawer.

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And, when I was through

I filled up my shoe

And brought it to you.

And you, you took me in,

You loved me then

You didn't waste time.

 And I, I never took much,

I never asked for your crutch.

Now don't ask for mine.

Enjoy!