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John Finn's Wife
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Well, the night was deep and the night was dark
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And I was at the old dance hall on the edge of town, yeah
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Some big ceremony was going down
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Well dancers writhed and squirmed and then
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Came apart and then writhed again
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Like squirming flies on a pin
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In the heat and in the din, in the heat and in the din
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I fell to thinking about brand new wife of mad John Finn
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Well, midnight came and clock did strike
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And in she came, did John Finn's wife
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With legs like scissors and butcher's knives
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Tattooed breast and flaming eyes
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And a crimson carnation in her teeth
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Carving her way through the dance floor
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And I'm standing over by the bandstand
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Every eye gaping on John Finn's wife
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Every eye gaping on John Finn's wife
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Oh yeah
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Now John Finn's wife was something of a mystery
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In a town where to share a sworn secret was a solemn duty
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I had brass knuckles and a bolo knife
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Over near the bandstand with John Finn's wife
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She got perfumed breasts and raven hair
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Sprinkled with wedding confettis
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And a gang of garroters were all giving me stares
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Armed, as they were, with machetes
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Well the night through the window was full of lights
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Winking and watching at John Finns' wife
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Winking and watching at John Finns' wife
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Well next came the cops, all out on the town
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But it don't look like no trouble there
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As they had for the bar in their lumpy suits
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And I slip my hand between the things of John Finn's wife
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They seemed to yawn awake, her things
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It was a warm and very ferocious night
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And the moon was full of blood and light
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And my eyes grew small and my eyes grew tight
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As I plotted in the ear of John Finns' wife
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Enter John Finn in his shrunken suit
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With his quick black eyes and black cheroot
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With his filled down teeth and a hobnail boot
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And his fists full of pistols in his pockets
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Aiming at me and aiming at his wife
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The band fall silent fearing for their lives
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And with fear in my guts like tangled twine
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'Cause all I got is brass knuckles and a bolo knife
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And mad John Finns' wife is all
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And the three of us walk out of the hall
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Now the night bore down upon us all
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You could hear the crickets in the thickets call
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Guns did flare and guns did bawl
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And I planted my bolo knife in the neck of mad John Finn
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I took his wretched life
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Now I'm over by the bandstand
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Every hand moving on John Finns' wife
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Every hand moving on John Finns' wife
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And John Finns' wife took all the flowers down
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From her hair and threw them on the ground
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And the flies did hum and the flies did buzz around
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Poor John Finn lying dead upon the ground
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Lying dead upon the ground
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