Lucy Loves Lincoln
Copyright 2002 by Adam Selzer, all rights reserved, ASCAP

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Lucy told me it was over
Lucy just left me alone
she said that she'd found someone else whose
features looked carved out of stone.
Now I've some things that were crazy but let's make this perfectly clear:
she knows very well that this guy's been dead
for just over seven score years

She wants someone who is older
and looks sharp in stove-pipe hats
she's in love with Abraham Lincoln
and I can't compete with that

She keeps pennies under her pillow
and says it's like living in sin
I wouldn't take a five dollar bill from her
there's no telling where it might have been
now, I'm not the sort who holds grudges
I never hold on to the past
if she wants to go out with Lincoln,
then I pray the Union will last!

she wants someone who has tunnels
and high schools that bear his name
she's in love with Abraham Lincoln
and will be til they haul her away - like they did with Mary Todd!
She wants someone who is older
and looks sharp in stove-pipe hats
she's in love with Abraham Lincoln
and I can't compete with that


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