The Tattooed Lady-Billy Cotton

[ti:The Tattooed Lady] [ar:Billy Cotton] [al:Wakey! Wakey!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Tattooed Lady - Billy Cotton [00:18.03]I just heard a story that rings in my ears [00:21.76]It's one of the saddest a soul ever hears [00:25.78]To think of it makes me break out into tears [00:29.63]It deals with a man and his mate [00:32.48] [00:33.50]Mother Eve in the Garden of Eden [00:36.60] [00:37.48]Heard the serpent the same as the lass [00:40.39] [00:41.07]And this girl might have turned from temptation [00:44.29]Except for a terrible snake in the grass [00:48.44]Oh shame on the man who pursued her [00:52.42] [00:53.01]The villain who viciously wooed her [00:56.52] [00:57.27]She fell in a faint so he pulled out his paint [01:01.36]And the first thing she knew he tattooed her [01:04.61] [01:15.21]Her downfall began as an innocent thing [01:18.90]Her husband went off to go fishing one spring [01:22.84]So she joined her girl friends to go on a fling [01:26.66]They all went to bathe on the beach [01:30.42]Then this artist came up with his paint pot [01:34.22]And his needle to toy mit her calf [01:37.42] [01:38.36]She allowed him to tinker he painted a fiend [01:42.34]Who was sawing a woman in half [01:45.11] [01:46.63]Shame on the man who pursued her [01:49.41] [01:50.09]The villain who viciously wooed her [01:53.51] [01:54.34]She fell in a faint so he pulled out his paint [01:58.31]And the first thing she knew he tattooed her [02:01.46] [02:04.35]The girl wasn't bright and the fellow was smart [02:08.00]And now that he made such a favourable start [02:11.85]He made her believe she was helping his art [02:15.79]They met every day after that [02:18.54] [02:43.54]Never once did she think that he loved her [02:46.85] [02:47.36]Nor did she think that he do her harm [02:50.45] [02:51.26]Till the day that he tattooed in red white and blue [02:55.10]And he wrote love you on her arm [02:58.19] [02:59.47]Shame on the man who pursued her [03:02.32] [03:03.09]The villain who viciously wooed her [03:06.24] [03:07.10]She fell in a faint so he pulled out his paint [03:11.10]And the first thing she knew he tattooed her [03:14.49] [03:17.20]Her husband come home and they instantly kissed [03:21.01]His eyes read the writing from elbow to wrist [03:24.89]He foamed at the mouth and eventually hissed [03:28.86]His rage drove him blinkin well barmy [03:32.52]She was hurt by his attitude deeply [03:35.74] [03:36.72]And hysterically started to laugh [03:39.60] [03:40.70]So she pulled down her stocking and showed him the beast [03:44.41]Who was sawing a woman in half [03:47.74]Oh shame on the man who pursued her [03:51.46] [03:52.58]The villain what viciously wooed her [03:55.44] [03:56.41]She fell in a faint so he pulled out his paint [04:00.24]And the first thing she knew he tattooed her [04:03.64] [04:24.08]No chance did she have to explain things for then [04:27.80]He yelled never dampen my bath-mat again [04:31.79]So now she gets tattooed whenever she can [04:35.48]She works in a circus for pay [04:38.94] [04:39.46]And her soft epidermis is painted [04:42.71] [04:43.21]With the pictures of sailors and such [04:46.44] [04:47.24]And if you have a needle you too can tattoo [04:51.24]On the skin that they all love to touch [04:54.20]Oh shame on the man who pursued her [04:58.29] [04:58.98]The villain who viciously wooed her [05:02.29] [05:03.20]She fell in a faint so he pulled out his paint [05:07.08]And the first thing she knew he tattooed her