| Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread
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| The able bodied have shipped away
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| Molly McGee gets her tea leaves read
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| You’ll be married in a month they say
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| These leaves are crazy
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| Just look at this town there’s no men left
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| Just frail old boys and babies
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| Talking to teacher in the treble clef
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| She plants her garden in the spring
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| She does the winter shoveling
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| Tokyo Rose is talking on the radio
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| She says, ?I'm leaving here?, but she don’t go
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| Out of the blue, just passing through
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| A young flight sergeant on two weeks leave says
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| «Molly McGee, no one else will do»
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| And he seals the tea leaf prophecy
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| Oh, those nights are strong and soft
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| Private passions and secret storms
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| Nothing about him ticked her off
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| And he looks so cute in his uniform
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| She plants her garden in the spring
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| He does the winter shoveling
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| But summer’s just a sneeze in a long, long, bad winter cold
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| Soon she says, «I'm leaving here», but she don’t go
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| Sleep, little darling
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| This is your happy home
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| Hiroshima cannot be pardoned
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| Don’t have kids when you get grown
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| This world is shattered
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| The wise are mourning, the fools are joking
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| Oh, what does it matter
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| The wash needs ironing and the fire needs stoking
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| She plants her garden in the spring
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| He does the winter shoveling
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| Now there’s three of them laughing 'round the radio
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| She says, «I'm leaving here», but she don’t go
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| She plants her garden in the spring
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| They do the winter shoveling
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| They sit up late and watch the Johnny Carson Show
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| She says, «I'm leaving here?, but she don’t go, she don’t go |