Elly

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                                                     1.Elly wrapped her

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 nineteen years in a coat from forty-one            She had the looks that would

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 make a grown man cry                 From the Diamantina River country she

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 crossed the dry mid west    From her childhood dreams and sheltered schemes she

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 cut the ties                     The commercial man made blunt demands   As they

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 travelled south by east               Elly turned in-to a woman over-night

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                  Then he set her down in the heart of town the millionaires re-

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 treat               She gazed up at the tall glassed concrete walls of Main Street

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 Surfers Paradise              If the deck's been marked before the deal        You

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 learn to compro-mise           Get to know the cool hand with the dice

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 Learn to live off losers 'cause they make their mistakes twice

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 You're living in high so-ciety but you're street-wise                  Just to sur-
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 vive                         Just to survive                         vive

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        Just to sur-vive                   Just to sur-vive


2.With her big blue eyes and centrefold looks
  Man she stacked them in
  All the senators and doctors called her madam
  With her fifteen girls she built a world a pleasured paradise
  On what a man of God would call the wages of sin

3.Now a wealthy woman drinks with diamond rings
  Sits twenty stories high
  And gazes out as the sun lifts from the sea
  To make it to the top Elly sacrificed the lot
  And found that seven figure sum much too high a fee