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Taye Diggs
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[LIZ]
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Pop
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[ANNIE]
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Six
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[JUNE]
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Squish
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[HUNYAK]
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Uh uh
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[VELMA]
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Cicero
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[MONA]
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Lipschitz!
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And now, the six merry murderesses of the Cook County Jail in their rendition of the Cell Block Tango
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[LIZ]
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Pop
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[ANNIE]
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Six
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[JUNE]
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Squish
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[HUNYAK]
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Uh uh
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[VELMA]
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Cicero
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[MONA]
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Lipschitz!
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[LIZ]
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Pop
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[ANNIE]
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Six
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[JUNE]
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Squish
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[HUNYAK]
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Uh uh
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[VELMA]
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Cicero
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[MONA]
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Lipschitz!
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[ALL]
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He had it coming
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He had it coming
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He only had himself to blame
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If you´d have been there
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If you´d have seen it
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[VELMA]
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I betcha you would have done the same!
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[LIZ]
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Pop
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[ANNIE]
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Six
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[JUNE]
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Squish
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[HUNYAK]
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Uh uh
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[VELMA]
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Cicero
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[MONA]
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Lipschitz!
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[LIZ (Spoken)]
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You know how people
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have these little habits
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That get you down. Like Bernie.
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Bernie you like to chew gum.
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No, not chew. POP.
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So I came home this one day
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And I´m really irritated
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I´m looking for a little sympathy
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and there´e Bernie lyin´
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on the couch, drinkin´ a beer
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and chewin´. No, not chewin´.
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Poppin´. So, I said to him,
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I said, "Bernie, you pop that
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gum one more time..."
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and he did.
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So I took the shotgun off the wall
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and I fired two warning shots
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into his head.
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[GIRLS]
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He had it coming
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He had it coming
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He only had himself to blame
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If you´d have been there
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If you´d have heard it
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I betcha you would
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Have done the same!
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[ANNIE (Spoken)]
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I met Ezekiel Young from
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Salt Lake city about two years ago
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and he told me he was single
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and we hit it off right away.
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So, we started living together.
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He´d go to work, he´d come home
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I´d fix him a drink, We´d have dinner.
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And then I found out,
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"Single" he told me?
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Single, my ass.
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Not only was he married
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...oh, no, he had six wives.
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One of those Mormons, you know.
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So that night, after he came home from work,
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I fixed him his drink as usual.
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You know, some guys just can´t hold
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their arsenic.
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[GIRLS]
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He had it coming
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He had it coming
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He only had himself
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To blame
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If you´d have been there
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If you´d have seen it
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I betcha you would
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Have done the same
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He had it coming
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He had it coming
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He only had himself
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to blame
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If you´d have been there
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If yo´d have seen it
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I betcha you would
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Have done the same!
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[LIZ,ANNIE,JUNE,MONA]
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Hah! He had it coming
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He had it coming
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He took a flower
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In its prime
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And then he used it
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And he abused it
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It was a murder
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But not a crime!
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[VELMA AND HUNYAK]
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Pop, six, squish, uh-uh
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Cicero, Lipschitz
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[JUNE (Spoken)]
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Now, I´m standing in the kitchen
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carvin´ up the chicken for dinner,
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minding my own business,
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and in storms my husband Wilbur,
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in a jealous rage.
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"You been screwin´ the milkman,"
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he says. He was crazy
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and he kept on screamin´,
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"you been screwin the milkman."
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And then he ran into my knife.
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He ran into my knife ten times!
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[GIRLS]
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Pop,Six,
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Squish,Uh-uh,
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Cicero,Lipschitz
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Pop, Six,
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Squish,Uh-uh,
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Cicero,Lipschitz
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Pop,Six,
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Squish,Uh-uh,
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Cicero,Lipschitz
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[ALL]
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If you´d have been there
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If you´d have seen it
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I betcha you would have done the same!
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[HUNYAK (Spoken)]
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Mit kersek, en itt? Azt mondjok,
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hogy a hires lakem lefogta a ferjemet en meg
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lecsaptam a fejet. De nem igaz, en artatlan
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vagyok. Nem tudom mert mondja
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Uncle Sam hogy en tettem. probaltam
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a rendorsegen megmayarazni de nem ertettek meg...
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[JUNE (Spoken)]
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Yeah, but did you do it?
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[HUNYAK]
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UH UH, not guilty!
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[VELMA]
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My sister, Veronica and
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I had this double act
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and my husband, Charlie,
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traveled round with us.
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Now, for the last number in our act,
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we did these 20 acrobatic tricks in a row
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One, two, three, four,five...splits, spread eagles,
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back flips,flip flops,
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one right after the other.
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So this one night before the show we are down at the Hotel Cicero,
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the three of us, boozin´
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havin´ a few laughs and
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And we run out of ice.
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So I go out to get some.
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I come back, open the door
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and there´s Veronica and
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Charlie doing Number Seventeen-
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the spread eagle.
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[GIRLS]
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He had it coming
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He had it coming
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He only had
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Himself to blame.
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If you´d have been there
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If you´d have seen it tricks in a row,
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one,two,three,
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I betcha
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You would
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Have done
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The same!
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He had
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It coming
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He had it coming...
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Well, I was in such a state of shock,
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I completely blacked out. I can´t remember a thing.
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It wasn´t until later,
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when I was washing the blood off my hands
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I even knew they were dead.
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They had it coming
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They had it coming
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They had it coming all along
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I didn´t do it
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But if I´d done it
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How could you tell me that I was wrong?
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[VELMA]
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They had it coming
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[GIRLS]
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They had it coming
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[VELMA]
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They had it coming
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[GIRLS]
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They had it coming
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[VELMA]
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They had it coming
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[GIRLS]
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They took a flower
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[VELMA]
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All along
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[GIRLS]
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In its prime
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[VELMA]
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I didn´t do it
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[GIRLS]
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And then they used it
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[VELMA]
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But if I´d done it
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How could you tell me
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That I was wrong?
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[MONA]
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I loved Alvin Lipschitz
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more than I can possibly say.
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He was a real artistic guy...
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sensitive... a painter.
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But he was always trying
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to find himself.
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He´d go out every night
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looking for himself
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and on the way
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he found Ruth,
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Gladys,
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Rosemary and Irving.
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I guess you could say we broke up
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because of artistic differences.
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He saw himself as alive
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and I saw him dead.
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[GIRLS]
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He had it coming
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He had it coming
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He only had
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Himself to blame
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If you´d have been there
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If you´d have seen it
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I betcha
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You would
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Have done
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The same!
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[ALL]
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The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum
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The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum
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[LIZ,ANNIE,MONA]
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They had it comin´
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[VELMA,JUNE,HUNYAK]
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They had it comin´
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[LIZ,ANNIE,MONA]
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They had it comin´
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[VELMA,JUNE,HUNYAK]
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They had it comin´
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[LIZ,ANNIE,MONA]
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They had it comin´
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[VELMA,JUNE,HUNYAK]
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They had it comin´
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[LIZ,ANNIE,MONA]
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All along
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[VELMA,JUNE,HUNYAK]
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All along
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´Cause if they used us
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´Cause if they used us
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And they abused us
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And they abused us
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[LIZ,ANNIE,MONA]
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How could you tell us
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[VELMA,JUNE,HUNYAK]
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How could you tell us That we were wrong?
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That we were wrong?
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He had it coming
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He had it coming
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He only had
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Himself
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To blame.
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If you´d have been there
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If you´d have seen it
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I betcha
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You would
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Have done
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The same!
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[LIZ (Spoken)]
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You pop that gum one more time!
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[ANNIE (spoken)]
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Single my ass.
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[JUNE (Spoken)]
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Ten times!
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[HUNYAK (Spoken)]
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Miert csukott Uncle Same bortonbe.
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[VELMA (Spoken)]
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Number seventeen-the spread eagle.
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[MONA (Spoken)]
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Artistic differences.
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[LIZ]
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Pop
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[ANNIE]
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Six
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[JUNE]
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Squish
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[HUNYAK]
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Uh uh
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[VELMA]
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Cicero
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[MONA]
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Lipschitz!
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VELMA = Catherine Zeta-Jones
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LIZ = Susan Misner
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JUNE = Deirdre Goodwin
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ANNIE = Denise Faye
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HUNYAK = Ekaterina Chtchelkanova
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MONA = Mia Harris
Cell Block Tango
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