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"Madame Jeneva"

from "The Green Eyed" by Daisy Chapman

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In the late 1730s the decadent ladies
Fled to the west leaving the rest
In the flame scarred frown of east London town
Where the hookers and bookers reside

From them embers rose the rookeries
Housing vice and debauchery
And the name of this fever
Was Madame Jeneva

Chorus:
Oh drunk for a penny, dead drunk for two
Clean straw for nothing come celebrate your suffereing
Madame Jeneva, she will decieve ya
Slappy Bonita, she will defeat ya

Her juniper berries set many a lady's
Hearts a-flutter but their soul in the gutter
Back streets of St Giles played host to the smiles
Of the hags with their gin soaked rags

Ms Eastwick and Ms Dafur
Ransomed offspring for liquor
Escape the horrors of Gin Lane
For the labrynth of mother's ruin.

William Hogarth sketched the aftermath
Ink to paper, some years later
Marking the pity and the stench of the city
That the well-to-do left in their wake.

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from "The Green Eyed", track released January 1, 2010

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