Tonya's Twirls (Album Version)-Loudon Wainwright III

[ti:Tonya's Twirls] [ar:Loudon Wainwright III] [al:Social Studies] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tonya's Twirls (Album Version) - Loudon Wainwright III [00:11.20]You knew she was in trouble [00:12.87]When you saw her bodyguard [00:16.20]When you saw those two together [00:19.51]You knew it wasn't hard [00:22.16]To see that she was different [00:23.96]Not just one of the girls [00:27.17]With their gliding and their sliding [00:29.11]And their pirouettes and twirls [00:32.73]Then it turned out that she smoked [00:34.35]And drank and posed practically nude [00:38.17]And she didn't smile all of the time [00:41.36]She got angry and was crude [00:44.20]No she wasn't goody-two-skates like [00:47.10]All the other girls [00:49.11]With their grinning and their spinning [00:51.64]And their winning little twirls [00:54.60]And her childhood was unhappy [00:57.75]Her mom was really weird [01:00.64]Her husband liked to hit her [01:02.79]But it was poverty she feared [01:05.83]She grew up in the trailer parks [01:08.31]Not like most other girls [01:11.11]With their gliding and their sliding [01:13.67]And their whirling little twirls yeah [01:27.63]Yes they all look like princesses [01:30.40]Little Barbies to the core [01:33.45]But she was your parents worst nightmare [01:34.84] [01:36.18]The slut who moved next door [01:38.80]From the wrong side of the track [01:40.78]She liked the boys more than the girls [01:44.03]With their gliding and their sliding [01:46.38]And their girlish dainty twirls [01:49.60]And it seemed like she was lying about [01:52.49]What she didn't know [01:55.81]And then she started crying [01:58.56]In the media sideshow [02:00.99]And in practice she kept [02:02.21]Falling down more than the other girls [02:05.98]With their gliding and their sliding [02:08.43]And their picture perfect twirls [02:11.68]And they almost towed her truck way uh [02:14.66]The whole thing was a drag [02:17.29]Forget about Campbell Soup and Reebok [02:18.89] [02:20.40]Weedy's or the flag [02:22.26]Huh there'll be books [02:23.24]She'll make some money [02:25.11]That's what they're after [02:26.67]All these girls [02:27.97]With their selling [02:28.73]Kiss and telling and [02:30.72]Their twisted little twirls [02:44.62]So play the national anthem [02:47.53]Stand up proud and tall [02:50.05]Ooh we hope that ours don't stumble [02:52.86]And that theirs slip and fall [02:56.65]Remember Olga Korbut [02:58.97]What happens to these girls [03:01.21]With their triple-flips and axels [03:04.34]And their somersaults and twirls [03:06.70]Ice used to be a nice thing [03:09.63]When you laced up figure skates [03:12.16]Now it's a thing to win a medal [03:14.10]On for the United States [03:18.13]But once there were no lutzes [03:20.20]Axels pirouettes or twirls [03:23.39]Just giddy slipping sliding [03:25.66]Laughing happy little girls