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It says here in this book:
The average unmarried female
basically insecure
Due to some long frustration
may react
With psycosomatic symptoms
difficult to endure
affecting the upper respiratory tract.
In other words,
just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold
a person can develop a cold.
You can spray her wherever you
figure there's streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot for whatever's she's got
but it just won't work
If she's tired of getting that fish eye from the hotel clerk
A person can develop a cold.
It says here:
The female remaining single
just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendancy,
see note
see note
Chronic organic syndrome
Toxic or hypertense
Involving the eye, the ear, the nose, and throat
In other words
just from wondering if the wedding is on or off
A person can develop a cough
You can feed her all day
with the vitamin A and the bromofizz
but the medicine never gets anywhere near where the
trouble is.
If she's getting a kind of name for herself
and the name ain't his,
a person can develop a cold
And further more,
just from stalling, and stalling, and stalling the wedding trip
A person can develop la grippe.
When they get on that train to Niagra
and she can hear church bells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
and the mood sublime
Then they get off at Saratoga
for the fourteenth time
a person can develop la grippe,
La grippe
La post nasal drip.
With the wheezes
and the sneezes
And a sinus that's really a pip
From a lack of community property
and a feeling she's getiing to old
a person can develop a
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