Beverly Penn

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Verse: 1 
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Girl sleeping on a mansion roof 
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Under a wintery sky 
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Wrapped she is in her furs and sable 
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Starlight in her eye 

Verse: 2 
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And what is the name of this creature? 
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Where did she live and when? 
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Who was she and why was it 
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That Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn? 

Verse: 3 
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Four o'clock in a marble morning 
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Water pouring on her skin 
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In fever, her life bursts open 
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And a hurricane blows in 

Verse: 4 
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When high from the dreams of this creature 
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A thief on a horse descends 
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It was dawn and it was December 
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And Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn 

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Verse: 5 
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It was all of a windy day 
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And the sky was full of crows 
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When her lovely soul ascended 
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She just closed her heart and rose 

Verse: 6 
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And whither the soul of this creature? 
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Tell me the story again 
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Of scarves and songs and the skin of space 
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And how Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn 

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Verse: 7 
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I would dive in a freezing river 
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Set fire to a hundred men 
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If I could, for just one time 
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Love somebody the way that he loved Beverly Penn 

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