HAITIAN DIVORCE
Album : The Royal Scam
Steely Dan - 1976


Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said 
So in love the preacher's face turned red 
Soon everybody knew the thing was dead 
He shouts, she bites, they wrangle through the night
She go crazy 
Got to make a getaway 
Papa say 

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Oh - no hesitation 
No tears and no hearts breakin' 
No remorse 
Oh - congratulations 
This is your Haitian Divorce 

She takes the taxi to the good hotel 
Bon marché as far as she can tell 
She drinks the zombie from the cocoa shell 
She feels alright, she get it on tonight 
Mister driver 
Take me where the music play
Papa say 

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At the Grotto 
In the greasy chair 
Sits the Charlie with the lotion and the kinky hair 
When she smiled, she said it all 
The band was hot so 
They danced the famous Merengue 
Now we dolly back 
Now we fade to black 

Tearful reunion in the USA 
Day by day those memories fade away 
Some babies grow in a peculiar way 
It changed, it grew, and everybody knew 
Semi-mojo 
Who's this kinky so-and-so? 
Papa go 

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