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Hangin Round Tab

by Lou Reed


                                             
Harry was a rich young man who would become a priest
                                             
He dug up his dear father who was recently deceased
                                               
He did it with tarot cards and a mystically attuned mind
                                
And shortly there and after he did find
                                                        
Jeanny was a spoiled young brat, she thought she knew it all
                                                       
She smoked mentholated cigarettes and she had sex in the hall
                                  
But she was not my kind or even of my sigh
                                
The kind of animal that I would be about
 

CHORUS
         
Oh oh oh, you keep hangin' 'round me

And I'm not so glad you found me
                                        
You're still doing things that I gave up years ago
         
Oh oh oh, you keep hangin' 'round me

And I'm not so glad you found me
                                        
You're still doing things that I gave up years ago
               
Hangin' 'round, hangin' 'round
 
Cathy was a bit surreal, she painted all her toes
And on her face she wore dentures clamped tightly to her nose
And when she finally spoke her twang her glasses broke
And no one else could smoke while she was in the room
 
Hark the herald angels sang and reached out for a phone
And plucking it with ivory hand dialed long distance home
But it was all too much sprinkling angel dust
to A.T. and T. Who didn't wish you well
 

CHORUS

               
Hangin' 'round, hangin' 'round
               
Hangin' 'round, hangin' 'round
               
Hangin' 'round, hangin' 'round