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Clara In Sarasota

from Squirt, Rubber Heart by Al Duvall

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Help me friends I’m in a quandary
The gal I’m fond of’s gotten wandery
And where she’s gone is way down yondery
Where they don’t wear too much laundry

Out west in southeast North Dakota
Can’t make my car go one iota
And even Fargo’s far to go to
Much less on down to Sarasota

Through a dusty nation I must hasten
I boarded at the old bus station
It’s crawling slow as a crustacean
My lust has rusted in frustration

Oh Clara, Clara, that’s her moniker
Skin as clear as gin and tonic, her
Absence makes my heartache chronic-er
How I hope that love will conquer
All that distance, with some persistence
To Clara in Sarasota

I rode for days, my backside tingling
With the hoi polloi was mingling
When we stop my spurs get jingling
To the camp of the Brothers Ringling

There she is! And when I smooch her
She tells me she’s a hootchy-coocher
Without a stitch on or a suture
It gives me doubt about our future

When I asked her why, she said in
This world I need to earn my bread and
The circus life I’ve been misled in
It takes a body to get ahead in

Oh Clara spare a heart, is there a
Chance you’ll wear more than mascara
If you’re bare I couldn’t bear a
Flock of goons to drool and stare a
Single instant at your fair skin’s tint
Oh Clara, leave Sarasota!

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from Squirt, Rubber Heart, track released June 1, 2011

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