Pretty Little Dead Things Tab uke di Paddington

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when i was a little girl
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my father traveled ’round the world
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he’d write about the fascinating things he’d see
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but did he ever bring back anything for me?

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no, he’d just sent me photographs
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of lions, hippos, and giraffes
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forget the expeditions, i wanted exhibitions
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something i could feel, something that was real
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so take a deep breath, you guessed!


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i wanted pretty little dead things
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to hang upon the wall
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first i have to slay it, then i like to flay it and display it
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i don’t care how big or small
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give me pretty little dead things
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that’s what i want to see
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’cause no-one loves a pretty little dead thing more than me


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it amazes me that people find it quite bizarre
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when seeing creatures in a jar
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a kitten or a camel, a reptile or a mammal
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any kind of beast, as long as it’s deceased 
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take your last breath, oh yes!

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all the pretty little dead things
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make me feel alive
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if you wanna see ’em, swap the “mausoleum” for “museum”
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and i happily supply 
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all the pretty dead things 
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that you’ll ever need
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’cause no+one makes a pretty little dead thing quite like me
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yeah 

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so when when the family pup has had enough
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why not get it stuffed with lots of fluff 
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though he’s never going to fetch that ball 
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he’ll be great at playing dead in the hall 

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if you reverse on the neighbour’s cat 
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i can pump it up in seconds flat 
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from invertebrates to amphibia
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i’ve stuffed an encyclopaedia

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an ant, a bee, a carp, and a dog
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elephants, frogs, two giraffes, and a hog
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iguanas and jellyfish, twelve kangaroos
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lemurs and manatees, i’ll stuff the zoo!

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narwhals and octopi, quite a few quail
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red-crested robins and seventeen snails
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all kind of tigers, don’t care where they’re born
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if they were real, i’d stuff unicorns!

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vultures and worms, xantus and yak and a zebra, and we’re almost done!
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i’ve stuffed and stuffed everything on this planet but one!

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it has to be peruvian
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i need a bear
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nothing else compares 
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say goodbye, peru 

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i’ll send it to oblivion
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where my father failed 
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i will prevail 
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and once that bear is mine
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i’ll be the best explorer of all time 

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pretty little dead bear 
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nowhere you can hide 
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i’ll make it an exhibit, but first i need to kill it, then fill it 
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up with formaldehyde
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’til it’s a pretty little dead bear 
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what it was born to be 

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’cause no-one loves a pretty little dead thing
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no-one loves a pretty little dead thing
no-one loves a
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pretty 
little
dead thing more than
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me!