Still Life by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Still Life

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Put the Blame on Mame

Rita Hayworth

When Mrs. O'Leary's cow

Kicked the lantern in Chicago town

They say that started the fire

That burned Chicago down

That's the story that went around

But here's the real low-down

Put the blame on Mame, boys

Put the blame on Mame

Mame kissed a buyer from out of town

That kiss burned Chicago down

So you can put the blame on Mame, boys

Put the blame on Mame

Remember the blizzard, back in Manhattan

In eighteen-eighty-six

They say that traffic was tied up

And folks were in a fix

That's the story that went around

But here's the real low-down

Put the blame on Mame, boys

Put the blame on Mame

Mame gave a chump such an ice-cold "No"

For seven days they shovelled snow

So you can put the blame on Mame, boys

Put the blame on Mame

When they had the earthquake in San Francisco

Back in nineteen-six

They said that Mother Nature

Was up to her old tricks

That's the story that went around

But here's the real low-down

Put the blame on Mame, boys

Put the blame on Mame

One night she started to shim and shake

That brought on the Frisco quake

So you can put the blame on Mame, boys

Put the blame on Mame

They once had a shootin' up in the Klondike