I Married a Milliner

from Recluses Unite! by Al Duvall

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lyrics

Though many adore me I married a milliner
She's breezy she's stormy I cherish the chill in her
For although I'm forty she breathes and I feel eighteen
She stands in her stall she's a poor kid with tortured feet
She smiles through it all she's the orchid of Orchard Street
I spotted her plumage through the window of my limousine
On top of the world the air's rather thin alone I sat gasping and pale
But the tenement basement apartment she's in is warm as a Mexican jail But business got tougher for my little milliner
The work made her suffer the mercury was killin' her
She'd faint on the sofa and arouse my chivalry
So I reached in my pocket and pulled out a dime and ring
I put back the dime and I gave her the other thing
And laid down a hanky and fell upon my knee
I heard from an old society flame
the milliner weighed on her head
A millionaire ought to be smart said the dame
and she coaxed me to wed her instead
But I didn't carry a torch like an arsonist
I went to McSorley's 'cause that's where the parson is
To ask him to marry the milliner and me