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| I’m flying south for the summer, I’m gonna follow the sun,
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| I’m flying south for the summer now the mating season’s begun.
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| In San Tropez I met Selina, now her figure was not very nice,
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| She was so thin the cats had her out on the landing twice.
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| When she went down to the beach there, everyone stared at her,
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| And when she wore her topless bathing suit, people kept calling her 'sir'. |
| Oh,
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| In Lisbon I first kissed Maria, it was late on a September night,
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| She was a vision of loveliness in the early morning light.
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| I said, «Tell me, where have you been all my life, my Venus of the dawn?»
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| She smiled and said, «Well, for the first twenty years I wasn’t even born."Oh,
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| Big Annie from Brighton once ordered a steak weighing nine and a quarter pound,
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| The butcher, he said, «Will you take it, ma’am, or shall I send it 'round?»
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| She said, «No, I just wanna look at it 'cause I’ve been dieting like a chump,
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| And that’s what I’ve lost and I just wanna see what it looks like in one lump.
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| «Oh,
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| Oh, one day I saw in Jerona on a river so quiet and remote,
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| Eight lovely girls from the college, they were all in the same boat.
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| And as they rode in unison by me, I gallantly waved my hat,
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| And I said with a sigh, «I wish that I could stroke a crew just like that."Oh,
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| With Rita I stood in a tube train, we were hanging on tight by the strap,
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| When she let her pretty white hanky fall on a sleeping old gentleman’s lap.
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| Now, when he awoke from his slumber he saw everyone staring at him,
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| And thinking it was his shirt tail he slyly tucked it in. |