| Johnnie Fedora met Alice Bluebonnet
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| In the window of a department store
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| 'Twas love at first sight and they promised one night
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| They’d be sweethearts forever more
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| Johnnie would serenade Alice
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| Too-ra-lay, too-ra-lye, too-ra-loo!
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| He sang of a beautiful palace
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| Of a beautiful hatbox for two
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| But Johnnie Fedora lost Alice Bluebonnet
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| To a patron of the department store
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| Her beauty was sought by the girl she was bought by
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| For twenty-three ninety-four
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| Johnnie, oh Johnnie!
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| Your Alice Bluebonnet
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| Will always be waiting for you
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| So don’t give up hoping and don’t give up dreaming
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| For true love will come smiling through
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| Johnnie Fedora was lonely and stranded
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| In the window of the department store
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| When lo and behold he was suddenly sold
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| And his heart became gay once more
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| Johnnie sang out like a robin
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| Too-ra-lay, too-ra-lye, too-ra-loo!
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| To strangers he’d come up a-bobbin'
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| «Oh! |
| I thought you were someone I knew.»
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| He looked for her uptown and 'cross town and downtown
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| From the Brooklyn Bridge to the Jersey Shore
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| It all seemed in vain, till he heard the refrain
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| Of the song Alice sang of yore
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| Johnnie, oh Johnnie!
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| Your Alice Bluebonnet
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| Will always be waiting for you
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| So don’t give up hoping and don’t give up dreaming
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| For true love will come smiling through
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| Johnnie kept yearning, he kept on returning
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| To the window of the department store
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| His voice became hushed, he was literally crushed
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| And it started to rain and pour
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| Each place he went he kept calling
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| Too-ra-lay, too-ra-lye, too-ra-loo!
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| His spirits kept falling and falling
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| For his Alice was nowhere in view
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| But hey nonny nonny, an ice man found Johnnie
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| And he cut him to fit on his horse’s ears
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| 'Twas done without malice for beside him was Alice
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| And they lived on for years and years
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| You Johnnie Fedora’s, you Alice Bluebonnet’s
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| Whenever you find yourself blue
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| You’ll find it’s June in December if you’ll just remember
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| That true love will come smiling through
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| That true love will come smiling through! |