The Biggest Parakeets In Town

	  		
Intro:
 
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Some folks I know keep looking for rare old coins  
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and stamps. 
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While others see what's cooking, in antique books  

and lamps. 
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Some hobbies are like slavery, there's one too tough  
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for words. 
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This girl has got an aviary, and you should see her birds. 


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She's got chanticleers and dickey birds, intelligent and  
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tricky birds, that make the boys hang around. 
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Her crow is black and shiny, her hummingbirds are tiny, 
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but she's got the biggest parakeets in town! 

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She's got cockatoos and bobolinks, in royal blue and dusty  
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pinks, and you should see them hangin' upside down. 
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Oh, it's thrilling to behold her, when she wings them past  
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her shoulder, cause she's got the biggest parakeets in town! 

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And every night when she gets into bed, she puts each one  
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on a pillow. 
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Oh, they sound like Bing, when they start to sing, tweet  
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willow, tweet willow, tweet willow. 


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After holding them and petting them, she gets a thrill in  
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letting them, go swingin' from the ceiling to the ground. 
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Ask anyone who's seen 'em, it's hard to choose between 'em. 
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Cause she's got the biggest parakeets in town! 

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Imagine her in love one day, as she tells her fiance, "Okay!" 
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on the day the wedding rolls around. 
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Now, he loves the ground she stands on, he can't wait  
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to get his hands on, the biggest parakeets in town. 

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Well, picture on their wedding night, when hubby, dear, turns 
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off the light, and wakes in the mornin' with a frown. 
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As he goes to caress her, he sees them on the dresser.. 
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the biggest parakeets in town! 
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(She's really got 'em, boy! ) the biggest parakeets in town! 

(They're enormous!)