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In the later forties |
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When Diddy Levine lived with Eunice King |
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He gave her the ring that she wore |
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Janice the smiling daughter |
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Who came from a marriage way before |
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But Eunice was the father that she always saw |
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Though they never never never never told her |
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She always knew the score |
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You see kids were so much wiser after the wars |
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But Diddy hadn't have enough |
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She had to get some more |
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Thin Lizzy |
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On a ration piece of paper, she wrote "Eunice, I'm not sure" |
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And with her child in her arms |
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She went looking for a fling |
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Besides, she didn't like the name Mrs. King |
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The first time that she heard Damper Dan |
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Was on the radio |
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Crooning at a volume that was way, way down low |
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Diddy was surprised to hear that Damper's name was Dan |
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Soon after he was a calling |
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And he asked, begged and pleaded for her hand |
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Damper's heart was dampened |
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When Diddy answered "no, no, no, no, no" |
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But if she changed her mind, she said "Dan, I'll let you know" |
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With her child in her arms |
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Besides, she didn't like the name Damper Dan |
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Janice the smiling daughter grew up to be a teenage queen |
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Through all of her mother's lovers |
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She kept the name Levine |
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Behind the picture house she first made her scene |
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With a boy called Allister |
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Who was dating a friend called Celine |
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And Celine wasn't mad when Janice came in between |
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But Allister got scared when he heard |
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And he joined the USA Marines |
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Inheritance, you see, runs through every family |
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Who is to say what is to be is any better |
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Over and over it goes, goodness and badness winds blow |
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Over and over, over and over |
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Over and over and over and over and over and over and over |
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The good and the bad winds blow |
