Tonart: C minor
Verse 1
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There once
was a girl named Jenny
Whose virtues were varied
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Accepting that she was inclined
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Always to make up her mind
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And Jenny points a moral
With which you cannot quarrel
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As you will find
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Jenny is out of place!
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But I am sure the court will find
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Jenny is immortal
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And has a bearing on this case
That's for instance
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Well, for instance
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up when she was three
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She herself was going to trim the
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Christ mas Eve she lit the candles,
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tossed the taper away
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Little Jenny was an orphan
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Poor Jenny, bright as a baby,
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Her people would be hard to find.
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She lost one dad and mother,
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A sister and a brother,
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But she would make up her mind.
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She was an orphan on Christmas Day.
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Jenny made her mind
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up when she was twelve,
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That into foreign languages
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she would delve.
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But at 17,
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to Vassar it was quite a blow
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That in 27 languages
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Poor Jenny, bright as a pinion
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Her people would be hard to find
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To Jenny, on beholden,
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her heart was big and golden
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But she wouldn't make up her mind
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Jenny made 27 languages
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Jenny made her mind up at 22
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To get herself a husband
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She got herself a doldrum
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in her satins and furs,
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And she got herself a husband,
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but he wasn't hers.
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Poor Jenny, bright as a penny,
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A legal would be hard to find.
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Deserved a bed of roses,
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but history discloses
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That she wouldn't make up her mind.
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but he wasn't hers.
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Jenny made her mind up at 39
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She would take a trip to the Argentine
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She was only on vacation,
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but the Latins agree
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Jenny was the one who started
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the good -neighbor policy
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Poor Jenny, right as a baby
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Her people would be hard to find
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Oh, passion doesn't vanish
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in Portuguese or Spanish
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But she would make up her mind
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She instituted a new pa
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per for the state.
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Jenny made her mind up at 51.
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She would write her memoirs
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before she was done.
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The very day her book was published,
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history relates,
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there were wives who shot their husbands
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in some 33 states.
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Poor Jenny, cry as a baby.
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Her equals would be hard to find.
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She could give cards and spades
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to many other ladies,
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But she wouldn't make up her mind
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Never lie was Suzie for
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the Uncle Polly at six
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Jenny made her mind up at seventy -five
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She would live to be the
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But Jen and Roman Destiny
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play funny tricks
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And poor Jenny kicked the
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bucket at seventy -six
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Jenny wants a borrow
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That's a lot of common sense
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Jenny and her saga prove
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if you don't keep sitting on
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the fence.
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Jenny and her story, what a way to glory,
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to a man of a woman kind.
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Anyone with vision
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comes to this decision.
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Don't make up, you shouldn't make up,
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comes to this decision.
Don't give him up,
don't give him up!
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