Still Crying
Harry Smothers
(Tune: "Banana Republic" by Steve Goodman, slightly modified)
(ref. movie "The Crying Game")

Down in the South London district, down where there seldom is sun
Come all the emaciated young drag queens expecting to have some fun
Some of them are running from lovers, some are just running away,
Some of them are running from dealers, and one is running from the I.R.A.

Late at night you can see them in the cheap hotels and bars
Hustling the would-be women as they drink their way to Mars
Spending their renegade shillings on whatever the locals call "mine"
Singing give me some old song to dance to and a man to take home sometime

Now, Dil is a ditz but so lovely, and "Jim" hasn't gotten the joke
Jody is dead but still lives on, walking through their dreams in smoke
Goldfish are dead on the cobbles, we viewers are glued to our seats
Then Dil's clothes come off, and we all see she's packing several inches of meat

"Jim" smacks Dil and runs to the bathroom and gives up a whole week of lunch
He hustled the soldier's woman, but the dead man's line had punch
Spending his promises freely, "Jim" was far too committed to whine
Saying, "Give me a Dil with no pickle - I could handle that just fine."

Back in the South London District, back to the I.R.A.
"Jimmy" was to off an old judge on the very morning of the very next day
But Dil tied "Jim" to the bedposts, and then Jude ate Dil's lead by the pound
"Jim" takes the rap, so she visits whenever family hours come 'round

Long hours you can see them through thick glass or jail bars
Dil learns to love her Fergus, and her eyes are lit like stars
Counting the days she'll keep waiting for release of "the light of her life"
While Fergus, still straight, has to ponder
Yes, Fergus, still straight has to ponder
Oh, Fergus, still straight, has to ponder if he can make a man his wife



Written 1993 by Gerald Bliss (3/14).

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If you haven't seen "The Crying Game", you probably should.

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