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Cups & Punches
The Fiery Furnaces

I saw a black girl last night called
Charmaine Champaign
She wasn’t a worn out ex-so-and-so, no
not from Times Square
But she went to Johnny Romero’s till it
was too hot to handle
And she’s got nothing to show for it: no
money, no love,
but she could tell me the squarest thing
on the jukebox

She’s gonna get me folked up, fairly beat

Teach me not to get baited with stage
whispers
Like, “Can anybody turn me on?”
Show me how to make cups and punches
It’s so simple without a simple syrup
You have to gather a quarter pound of
young peach leaves
on a dry and sunny day
And the cost is so uncertain since peach
leaves are seldom sold

She’s gonna get me folked up, fairly beat

She likes a Strong Sangaree
that shakes for 12 hours,
Keeps warm for 12 months,
then sits for 6 months more
Then she’s gonna sing me the squarest
thing on the jukebox

She’s gonna get me folked up, fairly beat


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  Automatic Husband   Benton Harbor Blues   Bitter Tea   Black-Hearted Boy   Borneo   Cabaret of the Seven Devils   Charmaine Champagne   Clear Signal from Cairo   Cousin Chris   Cut the Cake   Does It Remind You of When   Drive to Dallas   Duffer St. George   Duplexes of the Dead   Even in the Rain   Evergreen   Ex-Guru   Forty Eight Twenty Three Twenty Second Street   Guns Under the Counter   In My Little Thatched Hut   Japanese Slippers   Keep Me in the Dark   Leaky Tunnel   Lost at Sea   Mandolin and Maracas   My Egyptian Grammar   Navy Nurse   Nevers!   Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)   Oh Sweet Woods   Police Sweater Blood Vow   Pricked in the Heart   Ray Bouvier   Rehearsing My Choir   Restorative Beer   Right By Conquest   Seven Silver Curses   Sing for Me   Single Again   Smelling Cigarettes   Staring at the Steeple   Sweet Spots   Take Me Round Again   Teach Me Sweetheart   The End Is Near   The Garfield El   The Old Hag Is Sleeping   The Philadelphia Grand Jury   The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry   The Wayward Granddaughter   Uncle Charlie   Waiting to Know You   We Wrote Letters Everyday   Whistle Rhapsody?   Wicker Whatnots   Widow City   Winter

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