The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

Album: Sign O' the Times (1987)
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  • Dorothy was a waitress on the promenade
    She worked the night shift
    Dishwater blonde, tall and fine
    She got a lot of tips

    Well, earlier I'd been talkin' stuff
    In a violent room
    Fighting with lovers past
    I needed someone with a quicker wit than mine
    Dorothy was fast

    Well, I ordered, "Yeah, let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain't too hungry"
    Dorothy laughed
    She said "Sounds like a real man to me"
    "You're kinda cute, you want to take a bath?
    (Do you want to, do you want to, bath)

    Awh I said "Cool, but I'm leaving my pants on" (she say)
    "'Cause I'm kind of going with someone"
    She said "Sounds like a real man to me"
    "Mind if I turn on the radio?"
    "Oh, my favorite song" she said
    And it was Joni singing "Help me I think I'm falling"

    Brrring the phone rang and she said
    "Whoever's calling can't be as cute as you"
    Right then I knew I was through
    (Dorothy Parker was cool)

    My pants where wet, they came off
    But she didn't see the movie
    'Cause she hadn't read the book first

    Instead she pretended she was blind
    An affliction brought on by a witch's curse
    Dorothy made me laugh (ha ha)
    I felt much better so I went back
    To the violent room (tell us what you did)
    Let me tell you what I did

    I took another bubble bath with my pants on
    All the fighting stopped
    Next time I'll do it sooner
    This is the ballad of Dorothy Parker

    Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
    Sweet hoo hoo ooo
    Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
    Well
    Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
    Well, ohh, well, aohh Writer/s: Prince Rogers Nelson
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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