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To: BW2221
ODE TO MARY JO (With apologies to Bobby Gentry)

It was Seventeen July, Another sleepy, humid Hyannis day,

I was out shuckin' clams And my brother was slicin’ brie,

And at supper time we stopped and walked back to the compound to dine

And Rose hollered at the back door, "You savages remember to act refined."

Then she said, "I got some news this morning from Cambridge

Today Mary Jo and Teddy went off the Chappaquiddick Bridge ."

Joe said to Rose, as he passed around the Roquefort cheese

"Well, Teddy never had an ounce of sense, pass the lobster please

There's five more states in the lower forty-eight I got to screw."

And Rose said it was a shame about Mary Jo, she knew

Seems like no good news ever comes out of Cambridge

And now Teddy and Mary Jo went off the Chappaquiddick Bridge.

Brother said he remembered when he and Jack and Teddy K

Wrecked a yacht on a cove on Cape Cod Bay

And wasn't I talking to him after Mass last Sunday night

I'll have another couple escargot, you know, it don't seem right

I saw her at the gin mill yesterday in Falmouth with some kids

And now you tell me Mary Jo and Teddy went off the Chappaquiddick Bridge.

Mama said to me, "Child, what's happened to your appetite?

Bridget’s cooked all morning and you haven't touched a single bite

That nice Police Chief Arena dropped by today

Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, Oh, by the way

He said he saw a girl that looked like you on the OnTime-Two at nine

And she and Teddy K. were throwing something into Pocha Pond"

A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Mary Jo

Brother married Vicky Gifford, they bought a place in Truro

There was a virus going 'round, Joe caught it and died last spring

And now Rose doesn't seem to want to do much of anything

And me I spend a lot of time snorting coke up in Cambridge

And dropping tabs over on the Chappaquiddick Bridge.


29 posted on 07/17/2005 7:54:44 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

that's a keeper


37 posted on 07/19/2005 4:37:50 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
ODE TO MARY JO (With apologies to Bobby Gentry)

WOW! LOL! that's a Keeper! :D

38 posted on 07/19/2005 5:09:55 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
ODE TO MARY JO (With apologies to Bobby Gentry)

WOW! LOL! that's a Keeper! :D

39 posted on 07/19/2005 5:09:55 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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