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Magdalene Laundries
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Joni Mitchell
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I was an unmarried girl
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I'd just turned twenty-seven
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When they sent me to the sisters
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For the way men looked at me
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Branded as a Jezebel
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I knew I was not bound for Heaven
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I'd be cast in shame
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Into the Magdalene laundries
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Most girls come here pregnant
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Some by their own fathers
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Bridget got that belly by her parish priest
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We're trying to get things white as snow
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All of us woe-begotten-daughters
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In the streaming stains
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Of the Magdalene laundries
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Prostitutes and destitutes
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And temptresses like me
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Fallen women
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Sentenced into dreamless drudgery
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Why do they call this heartless place
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Our Lady of Charity?
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Oh charity!
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These bloodless brides of Jesus
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If they had just once glimpsed their groom
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Then they'd know, and they'd drop the stones
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Concealed behind their rosaries
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They wilt the grass they walk upon
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They leech the light out of a room
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They'd like to drive us down the drain
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At the Magdalene laundries
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