Tonart: A major
Verse 1
Joanie was an unmarried girl,
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just turned twenty -seven
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When they sent her to the sisters because
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of the way men looked at her
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Jezebel, she knew she was
not bound for heaven
shame into the
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Magdalene laund 'ries
Most girls went there pregnant,
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some by their own fathers
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Bridget got her belly from the
things as white as snow
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All of those woe -begotten daughters
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Into steaming stains of the
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Magdalen laundries
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Prostitutes and destitutes an
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d temptresses like
Joanie
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Fallen women sentenced into
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dreamless drudgery
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Why do they call this heartless place
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Our
Lady of
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Charity?
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These bloodless brides of
Jesus,
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If they could just once
glimpse their groom,
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They'd drop the stones concealed
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behind the rosaries.
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They wilt the grass they walk upon
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They leach the light out of a room
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They'd like to wash those girls
Magdalen
Peg
O 'Connell died today
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She was a cheeky girl
They stuffed her in a hole
God you'd think at least
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Some bells should ring
Joanie thinks she'll die there too
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And that they'll tramp her in the dirt
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Like some lame bulb that
never will bloom
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When the springtime comes
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When the springtime comes
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When the springtime comes
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When the springtime comes
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D
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you
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