| Now Cora Lee from Tennessee
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| Had diamonds by the score
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| Big fur coat and picture hat
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| Still she’d play you for more
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| And all the boys were simply wild
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| About this vamping babe
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| Now when the other girls swarm here
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| Here’s what Cora said:
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| Girls, I’m a plain little brown from a one-horse town
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| But I’m vamping just the same
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| I’m plain in my style with my big, broad smile
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| «Cheerful Memphis,» my nickname
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| I went up on the mountain, looked down in the sea
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| The fishes in the water tried to flirt with me
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| Still I’m a plain little brown from a one-horse town
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| But I’m vamping just the sam
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| Lord, I’m a plain little brown from a one-horse town
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| But I’m vamping just th same
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| I’m plain in my style with my big, broad smile
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| «Cheerful Memphis,» my nickname
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| My name’s Alberta, home’s in a lion’s den
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| And my favorite occupation is stealing monkey-women's men
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| Still I’m a plain little brown from a one-horse town
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| But I’m vamping just the same
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| You better stop your good man from smiling in my face
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| Or you’ll wake up some morning and find me in your place
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| Still I’m a plain little brown from a one-horse town
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| But I’m vamping just the same |