Key: A augmentedA
♫ 🎸 Intro:
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♫ 🎸 Verse 1:
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I was an unmarried girl, I'd just turned twenty-seven
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When they sent me to the sisters for the way men looked at me
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Branded as a Jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven
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I'd be cast in shame into the Magdalene laundries
♫ 🎸 Verse 2:
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Most girls come here pregnant,some by their own fathers
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Bridget got that belly by her parish priest,
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We're trying to get things white as snow, all of us woe-begotten daughters
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In the streaming stains of the Magdalene laundries
♫ 🎸 Bridge:
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Prostitutes and destitutes and temptresses like me
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Fallen women sentenced into dreamless drudgery
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Why do they call this heartless place Our Lady of Charity?
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Oh, charity
♫ 🎸 Verse 3:
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These bloodless brides of Jesus If they had just once glimpsed their groom, then they'd know
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and they'd drop the stones concealed behind their rosaries
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They wilt the grass they walk upon they leech the light out of a room
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They'd like to drive us down the drain at the Magdalene laundries
♫ 🎸 Verse 4:
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Peg O'Connell died today, she was a cheeky gir, a flirt, they just stuffed her in a hole!
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Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring!
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One day I'm going to die here too and they'll plant me in the dirt
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Like some lame bulb hat never blooms, come any spring
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Not any spring