Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you

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Happy birthday, dear Sissy...

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The surprise of Sissy Hankshaw

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is that she did not grow up
a neurotic disaster.

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If you were a small girl
in a low-income suburb

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of Richmond, Virginia,
as Sissy was,

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and your own daddy
sometimes makes jokes

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about you being
"all thumbs,"

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then you toughen up...
or you shatter.

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...Happy birthday to you.

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Oh yes!

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Oh, did you make a wish?

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No, and I'm afraid she ain't gonna
make much of a brain surgeon, neither.

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Hey, she could
be a butcher.

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She could retire in two years
on the overcharges alone.

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She might make a hell
of a hitchhiker. Ha ha ha ha ha.

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If she were a boy,
you mean.

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She is,
if I may speak frankly,

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somewhat
of a medical oddity.

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Well, the Lord made them things
big for a purpose.

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Although...

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Lord only knows
what that might be.

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Doc, oh Doc...

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if a young man
ever shows up here

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with ugly fingers...

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you know,
would you please...

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Dear lady, please remember the words
of the painter Paul Gauguin

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who said,
"The ugly may be beautiful...

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but the pretty, never."

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I don't suppose that means
very much to you.

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I'm not stupid.