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Ballerina Dancer

from Thumbtack by The Johnson Report

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I met a girl born in '72
She'd walk around saying:

"How do you do?
My name is Carolina Isabella Kennedy-Jones,
And I'm a ballerina dancer.

I've never had a part in a show,
But in my heart I know,
That I'm a ballerina dancer."

"When I was young,
I used to walk on my toes,
And then I'd go to church
In ballerina clothes.
I'd pirouette along the holy rows,
My daddy tried to shut me down,
But Mama knows
That I'm a ballerina -

I can feel it in my bones.

And that's what makes me Carolina Isabella Kennedy-Jones."

I knew a guy born in '78
He'd walk around saying:

"Ain't life great?
My name is Arthur Alexander Alowishus McGee
And I'm a writer."

"I never wrote a thing,
But from the roof I'll sing,
That I'm a writer."

"When I was young,
I used to sniff cocaine.
I'd walk around at night
In the pouring rain.
My mama thought that I had gone insane,
But Daddy always knew,
I had a writer's brain.

So I'm a writer,
I don't think that you can disagree.
That name again is:
Arthur Alexander Alowishus McGee."

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from Thumbtack, released April 6, 2019

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