[Verse 1] There was a time I was wild, young, and handsome I was smokin cigarettes at age thirteen At seventeen I was drinking in the taverns With Irish poets, racketeers, and libertines At twentyone I was a fulltime gambler A cardsqueezer who blistered the [beat?] I carried a .3220 in my pocket And I heeded not The Gamblers Fallacy [Verse 2] Thereupon I was asked to be a procurer By a young woman of desire named Olivia May So for mutual financial benefits We opened up the House of the White Rose Bouquet [Verse 3] Olivia was a beauty and quite flirtatious She enjoyed the company of rakish men And we fell deeply in love with each other And prospered in our house of illrepute and sin [Verse 4] And even though I was in love with Olivia There were other girls and indiscretions A patron of the house was a physician And he gave me a cure for my transgressions See Ray Wylie Hubbard LiveGet tickets as low as 57You might also like[Verse 5] One night Olivia found my hidden blue bottle With tablets shaped like coffins inside She mistook them for opiate narcotics And swallowed the mercury chloride [Verse 6] How my heart died when I found her In her green beaded dress, dead on the floor At her service, I cocked my .3220 For I could not stand the sorrow anymore [Verse 7] Now the House of the White Rose Bouquet Oh, it fell into disarray and was torn down The place is now a beacon of decency For its a theatre known as The New Amsterdam [Verse 8] At night after the audience has departed Never knowing where they was once was a brothel A figure walks across the darkened stage In a green beaded dress, carryin a blue bottle
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