Father has a business
Strictly second hand
Everything from toothpicks
To a baby-grand
Stuff in our apartment
Came from father's store
Even clothes I'm wearing
Someone wore before
It's no wonder that I feel abused
I never get a thing that ain't been used
I'm wearing second hand hats
Second hand clothes
That's why they call me
Second hand Rose
Even our piano in the parlor
Daddy bought for ten cents on the dollar
Second hand pearls
I'm wearing second hand curls
I never get a single thing that's new
Even Jake, the plumber, he's the man I adore
He had the nerve to tell me he's been married before
Everyone knows that I'm just
Second hand Rose
From Second Avenue
From Second Avenue
No
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My mother said
That babies come in bottles
But last week she said
They grew on special babies bushes
I don't believe in the storks either
They're all in the zoo
Busy with their own babies
And what's a baby bush anyway?
My name is Barbra...
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Free and easy
That's my style
Howdy-do me?
Watch me smile
But fare-the-well me
After a while
'Cause I gotta roam
And any place I hang my hat is home
Sweetening water
Cherry wine
Thank you kindly
Suits me fine
Kansas city even carolina
That's my honeycomb
'Cause any place I hang my hat is home
Birds roosting in a tree
Pick up and go
And the going proves
That's how it oughta to be
Pick up too when the spirit moves me
Cross the river
'Round the bend
Howdy stranger?
So long friend!
There's a voice in the lonesome wind
Keeps a whispering roam
I'm going where a welcome mat is
No matter where that is
'Cause any place I hang my hat is home
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Father has a business
Strictly second hand
Everything from toothpicks
To a baby-grand
Stuff in our apartment
Came from father's store
Even clothes I'm wearing
Someone wore before
It's no wonder that I feel abused
I never get a thing that ain't been used
I'm wearing second hand hats
Second hand clothes
That's why they call me
Second hand Rose
Even our piano in the parlor
Daddy bought for ten cents on the dollar
Second hand pearls
I'm wearing second hand curls
I never get a single thing that's new
Even Jake, the plumber, he's the man I adore
He had the nerve to tell me he's been married before
Everyone knows that I'm just
Second hand Rose
From Second Avenue
From Second Avenue
No
