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The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Garfield El
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Wayward Granddaughter
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The Fiery Furnaces - 1917
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The Fiery Furnaces - A Candymaker's Knife In My Handbag
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The Fiery Furnaces - Asthma Attack
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The Fiery Furnaces - Automatic Husband
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The Fiery Furnaces - Benton Harbor Blues
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The Fiery Furnaces - Birdie Brain
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The Fiery Furnaces - Black-hearted Boy
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The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
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The Fiery Furnaces - Borneo
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The Fiery Furnaces - Bow Wow
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The Fiery Furnaces - Bright Blue Tie
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The Fiery Furnaces - Cabaret Of The Seven Devils
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The Fiery Furnaces - Charmaine Champagne
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The Fiery Furnaces - Chief Inspector Blancheflower
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The Fiery Furnaces - Chris Michaels
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The Fiery Furnaces - Clear signal from cairo
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The Fiery Furnaces - Cousin Chris
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The Fiery Furnaces - Crystal Clear
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The Fiery Furnaces - Cups & Punches
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The Fiery Furnaces - Cut The Cake
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The Fiery Furnaces - Does It Remind You Of When
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The Fiery Furnaces - Don't Dance Her Down
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The Fiery Furnaces - Drive To Dallas
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The Fiery Furnaces - Duffer St. George
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The Fiery Furnaces - Duplexes Of The Dead
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The Fiery Furnaces - Even In The Rain
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The Fiery Furnaces - Evergreen
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The Fiery Furnaces - Ex-Guru
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The Fiery Furnaces - Forty Eight Twenty Three Twenty Second Street
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The Fiery Furnaces - Gale Blow
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The Fiery Furnaces - Guns Under The Counter
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The Fiery Furnaces - Here Comes The Summer
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The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
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The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Gonna Run
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The Fiery Furnaces - I'm In No Mood
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The Fiery Furnaces - In My Little Thatched Hut
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The Fiery Furnaces - Inca Rag / Name Game
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The Fiery Furnaces - Japanese Slippers
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The Fiery Furnaces - Keep Me In The Dark
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The Fiery Furnaces - Leaky Tunnel
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The Fiery Furnaces - Lost At Sea
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The Fiery Furnaces - Mason City
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The Fiery Furnaces - My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found
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The Fiery Furnaces - My Egyptian Grammar
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The Fiery Furnaces - Navy Nurse
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The Fiery Furnaces - Nevers
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The Fiery Furnaces - Oh Sweet Woods
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The Fiery Furnaces - Paw Paw Tree
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The Fiery Furnaces - Police Sweater Blood Vow
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The Fiery Furnaces - Pricked In The Heart
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The Fiery Furnaces - Quay Cur
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The Fiery Furnaces - Ray Bouvier
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The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir
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The Fiery Furnaces - Restorative Beer
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The Fiery Furnaces - Right By Conquest
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The Fiery Furnaces - Rub-Alcohol Blues
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The Fiery Furnaces - Seven Silver Curses
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The Fiery Furnaces - Sing for Me
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The Fiery Furnaces - Single Again
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The Fiery Furnaces - Slavin' Away
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The Fiery Furnaces - Smelling Cigarettes
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The Fiery Furnaces - South Is Only A Home
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The Fiery Furnaces - Spaniolated
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The Fiery Furnaces - Staring At The Steeple
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The Fiery Furnaces - Straight Street
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The Fiery Furnaces - Sullivan's Social Slub
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The Fiery Furnaces - Sweet Spots
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The Fiery Furnaces - Take Me Round Again
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The Fiery Furnaces - Teach Me Sweetheart
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The Fiery Furnaces - The End Is Near
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Old Hag Is Sleeping
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Philadelphia Grand Jury
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
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The Fiery Furnaces - Though Let's Be Fair
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The Fiery Furnaces - Tropical Ice-Land
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The Fiery Furnaces - Turning Round
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The Fiery Furnaces - Two Fat Feet
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The Fiery Furnaces - Up In The North
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The Fiery Furnaces - Waiting to Know You
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The Fiery Furnaces - We Got Back The Plague
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The Fiery Furnaces - We Wrote Letters Everyday
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The Fiery Furnaces - Whistle Rhapsody?
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The Fiery Furnaces - Wicker Whatnots
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The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
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The Fiery Furnaces - Wolf Notes
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The Fiery Furnaces - Worry Worry
Guns Under The Counter
The Fiery Furnaces
But we have something too."
So said my aunt
A bowling alley and lunch counter
Filled with fellas on their lunch break
From the western electric plant at a slant across the street
And next door when so-and-so's men would come in, and the man himself very often
It was guns under the counter every time
Guns under the counter every time
Guns under the counter every time
And bowling on the second floor
Very often he was there himself
And i, of course, had a special small ball as a little girl,
And didn't i grow up, didn't i grow up to be captain of the morton girls bowling team? i did!
Though i don't attach much importance to that now, or then
Then riding the old garfield el downtown
And on up to state street
And back to guns under the counter
Guns under the counter every time
Guns under the counter
And bowling on the second floor
I never liked douglas park
And no one likes it now
But that's neither here nor there
There, or here
West of crawford, where it is i stayed
Chicago straights alliterates
North, and south
I lived in the ms
But it was down on the south side
Dr. peter pane and his brother had their doughnut factory
And i mention it now because
That one day
Now i wasn't there, we were in davenport at that time
Some north side irish bullets came zipping through that window
In cicero
Never stand at a window
And past the counter
Looking for those men
Who had their guns behind the counter
And you could smell the boiled cabbage on those bullets
One of them managed to hit a young pinsetter in the leg
Wouldn't you know it
But luckily panagoulis
Dr. peter pane
Was there to see to it
He took some special blackberry filling right out of his lunch bag
And applied it to the young man's wound
You see, dr. peter pane was an interesting man
And an even more interesting doctor
As he would use no material or remedy that wasn't used in the manufacture
Of his doughnuts down on 82nd and kedzie with his brother.
But he tempered this by the fact that he would rarely use ingredients
That didn't have some medicinal purpose
Or so he thought
Here in the doughnut factory
They have confectioner's sugar
So sweet it was caustic
And chocolate so bitter that it could kill typhus
Glazing so shiny
It could set back glaucoma
And filling so filling,
You didn't need stitches
The same special blackberry filling that was applied to the young man's wound
Blackberry filling that came straight from dr. peter pane's lunch bag
We were in davenport
With a big restaurant downtown
And i once kept a jackrabbit in the back yard
And i'd walk across the river to rock island to greek school
On a fine fall day
And i'd look up at the sky
And down at the river
But davenport changed its name to hooverville
So to speak, and we had to go to chicago to move in with my aunt