Holloway Jail

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They took my baby               to 
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Holloway jail,
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They took my baby,        down 
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Holloway jail,
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She was a lady when she went in,
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Now she's in jail,      and it's 
giving me hell.

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She was just succeeding in the city,
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She was just beginning to excel,
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And then a spiv named Frankie Simes
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Led her to a life of crime,
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And led her on the downward trail.
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Frankie came home late from work 
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one evening,
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The C.I.D. were hot on his 
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trail,
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Frankie promised everything,
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And then he went and turned her in,
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She went and took the rap for him
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Now she's impaled in Holloway jail.

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They took my baby, down Holloway 
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jail,
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They took my baby        to 
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Holloway jail
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There ain't no pity, there ain't no
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 bail,
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And she assures me           that 
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it's living hell.

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She was young and ever so 
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pretty,
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Now she looks so old and pale,
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She never sees the day,
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She wastes her life away,
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Sitting in that prison cell.

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They took my baby               to
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 Holloway jail,
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They locked my baby     in 
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Holloway jail,
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She was a lady when she went in,
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Now she's in jail, and it's giving
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 me hell.
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She's impaled, in Holloway jail.