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What Was Your Name in the States? Lyrics by Debbie Reynolds

1962

What was your name in the States?
Was it Thompson or Johnson or Bates?
Did you happen to draw on your mother-in-law?
Or sink the old lady with weights, my friend
Eh, What was you name in the States?...Oh!
What was your name in the States?
Was it Murphy, MacDonald or Gates?
Did you hold up a bank as a juvenile prank
And pack up the money in crates, my friend
What was your name in the States?...Tell the truth...
What was your name in the States?
Now yuh must have had some honest traits (I doubt it)
Did you try to abscond with a beautiful blond?
Such minor offenses we tolerates
Eh, What was your name in the States?
Sure, an' what was your name in New York?
Was it Clancy, O'Toole or O'Rourke?
Are you wanted for life 'cause you left your poor wife
When she caught you sniffing a cork, my friend
What was your name in New York?
What was your name in the East?
And how recently was you released?
Are you ridin' the rails 'cause you held up the mails?
Or was it the females you held, you beast!
Oh, What was your name in the East?
Oh, what was your name in the States?
Though you've suffered the cruelest of fates
'Way out here in the West ev'ry body's a guest
So line up and fill up your plates, my friend
Who ever you are in the States!
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Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds

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