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   From: will-dockery@knology.net   
      
   Know Nothing Snowball   
      
   I walk into Dunk And Dine   
   to have breakfast   
   and usher in the dawn.   
   In the back booth with a cigarette   
   I think of you   
   and know there's something going on.   
   You left me on the sidewalk   
   looking up   
   hearing laughter on the second floor.   
   People say I'm stone crazy   
   to be in love with you   
   and get nothing more.   
   See no evil,   
   Speak no evil,   
   Smell no evil,   
   you're a Know Nothing Snowball.   
      
   I remember last year in the hallway   
   of the Courtyard Marriott.   
   I was standing on the balconly   
   as you rode by in your chariot.   
   Staring in the mirror   
   I know sometimes I look quite ancient.   
   But I steal a line or two   
   and with some alchemy   
   make it transcendant.   
   Speak no evil,   
   Stand for evil,   
   See no evil,   
   you're a Know Nothing Snowball.   
      
   She blew him a kiss goodbye   
   on a transatlantic video conference.   
   As she smiled across several time zones   
   His heart broke worldwide   
   straight through the circumference.   
      
   Lost in the Piggly Wiggly   
   looking for a bag of cheese.   
   Roger Whittaker crooning about the last farewell   
   nostalgia nearly brings me   
   to my knees.   
   I think of you as a little girl here   
   summer mudpies still smouldering   
   Tarzan and the Green Berets   
   John Brown in his grave moldering.   
   Speak no evil,   
   Stand for evil,   
   See no evil,   
   you're a Know Nothing Snowball.   
      
   I'm back at the Dunk And Dine   
   to have breakfast   
   and usher in the dawn.   
   In the back booth with a cigarette   
   I think of you   
   and know there's something going on.   
   You left me on the sidewalk   
   looking up   
   hearing laughter on the second floor.   
   People say I'm stone crazy   
   to be in love with you   
   and get nothing more.   
   See no evil,   
   Speak no evil,   
   Smell no evil,   
   you're a Know Nothing Snowball.   
      
   -Will Dockery (words)   
    Henry Conley (melody)   
      
   ©2010 / May 16th 2010   
      
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   > Ganesha Girl on Rankin   
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   >    by Will Dockery   
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