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“We didn’t have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard-pressed
Then mama spent every last penny we had
To buy me a dancin’ dress

Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
Then she painted my eyes and lips
And then I stepped into my satin dancin’ dress
It was split on the side clean up to my hips

It was red, velvet-trimmed, and it fit me good
And starin’ back from the lookin’ glass
Was a woman where a half grown kid had stood.”