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Intro
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Verse
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Have you seen her, she's dressed in red fur
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And she's walking down a street like 5th Avenue
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She's got fine shoes, she don't pay no dues
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Except for days and days and days with her analyst crew
Bridge
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Pink tights at night for the disco
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Fall calls her to balls in San Francisco
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Airports, luggage, a nuisance
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Mention politics, she throws in her two cents
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Continental Kinda Girl, take her scissor and she cut off a curl
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Continental Kinda Girl, puts it in a jewelry box like a pearl
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Continental Kinda Girl,
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She writes when this you see, you'll remember me
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I think my god she'll follow me around the world
Interlude
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Verse
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I got my faults, I don't need no Gestalt
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modern insecurity, Twentieth Century plan
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And I confess, I'd like to watch you undress
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I'll help you take off your jewelry, I'm gonna help you any way I can
Bridge
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Pulling up in a chauffeur driven Cadillac
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To an after-hour Club; some say it's where it's at
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But who's that gentleman with the ...
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I'm asking you who's the old man with the ...
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Continental Kinda Girl, take her scissor and she cut off a curl
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Continental Kinda Girl, puts it in a jewelry box like a pearl
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Continental Kinda Girl,
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She writes when this you see, you'll remember me
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I think my god she'll follow me around the world
Interlude
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2nd Bridge
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And I think now am I too hard
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Is it just 'cause she has all those credit cards?
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Could it be just petty jealousy?
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But when I'm walking down 57th Avenue
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And our eyes just happen to meet I know I want a
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Continental Kinda Girl, Continental Kinda Girl
Interlude
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Verse
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She gets in motion on either side of the ocean
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She can hang out with the dirty rock and rollers,
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she can hang out with the shieks
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She got important places in important faces
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Watch her go through customs carrying psychedelic antiques
Bridge
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So twistewd, wanted, desired
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Remember Madam Claude where the rich men would buy her
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Anything she wanted as long as she was wanted
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As long as she was wanted my dreams they are haunted
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Continental Kinda Girl, take her scissor and she cut off a curl
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Continental Kinda Girl, puts it in a jewelry box like a pearl
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Continental Kinda Girl,
F#m G#m
She writes when this you see, you'll remember me
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I think my god she'll follow me around the world
Written by Elliott Murphy