Post on 01-Jun-2018
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The Story of Suicide Sal
We each of us have a good "alibi"
For being down here in the "joint";
But few of them really are justified
If you get right down to the point.
Youve heard of a womans "glory"
Being spent on a "downright cur!"
till you cant always judge the story
#s true! being told by her.
#s long as Ive stayed on this "island!"
#nd heard "confidence tales" from each "gal!"
$nly one seemed interesting and truthful %%
&he story of "uicide al."
'ow "al" was a gal of rare beauty!
&hough her features were coarse and tough;
he never once faltered from duty
&o play on the "up and up."
"al" told me this tale on the evening
Before she was turned out "free!"
#nd Ill do my best to relate it
(ust as she told it to me)
I was born on a ranch in Wyoming;
'ot treated li*e +elen of &roy;
I was taught that "rods were rulers"
#nd "ran*ed" as a greasy cowboy."
&hen I left my old home for the city
&o play in its mad di,,y whirl!
'ot *nowing how little of pity
It holds for a country girl.
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&here I fell for "the line" of a "henchman!"
# "professional *iller" from "-hi";
I couldnt help loving him madly;
For him even now I would die.
$ne year we were desperately happy;
$ur "ill gotten gains" we spent free;
I was taught the ways of the "underworld";
(ac* was just li*e a "god" to me.
I got on the "F.B.#." payroll
&o get the "inside lay" of the "job";
&he ban* was "turning big money"
It loo*ed li*e a "cinch" for the "mob."
/ighty grand without even a "rumble" %%
(ac* was last with the "loot" in the door!
When the "teller" dead%aimed a revolver
From where they forced him to lie on the floor.
I *new I had only a moment %%
+e would surely get (ac* as he ran;o I "staged" a "big fade out" beside him
#nd *noc*ed the forty%five out of his hand.
&hey "rapped me down big" at the station!
#nd informed me that Id get the blame
For the "dramatic stunt" pulled on the "teller"
0oo*ed to them too much li*e a "game."
&he "police" called it a "frame%up!"aid it was an "inside job!"
But I steadily denied any *nowledge
$r dealings with "underworld mobs."
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&he "gang" hired a couple of lawyers!
&he best "fi1ers" in any mans town!
But it ta*es more than lawyers and money
When 2ncle am starts "sha*ing you down."
I was charged as a "scion of gangland"
#nd tried for my wages of sin;
&he "dirty do,en" found me guilty %%
From five to fifty years in the pen.
I too* the "rap" li*e good people!
#nd never one "s3uaw*" did I ma*e.
(a*e "dropped himself" on the promise
&hat we ma*e a "sensational brea*."
Well! to shorten a sad lengthy story!
Five years have gone over my head
Without even so much as a letter%%
#t first I thought he was dead.
But not long ago I discovered
From a gal in the joint named 0yle!&hat (ac* and his "moll" had "got over"
#nd were living in true "gangster style."
If he had returned to me sometime!
&hough he hadnt a cent to give!
Id forget all this hell that hes caused me!
#nd love him as long as I live.
But theres no chance of his ever coming!For he and his moll have no fears
But that I will die in this prison!
$r "flatten" this fifty years.
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&omorrow Ill be on the "outside"
#nd Ill "drop myself" on it today;
Ill "bump em" if they give me the "hots3uat"
$n this island out here in the bay...
&he iron doors swung wide ne1t morning
For a gruesome woman of waste!
Who at last had a chance to "fi1 it!"
4urder showed in her cynical face.
'ot long ago I read in the paper
&hat a gal on the /ast ide got "hot!"
#nd when the smo*e finally retreated
&wo of gangdom were found "on the spot."
It related the colorful story
of a "jilted gangster gal."
&wo days later! a "sub%gun" ended
&he story of "uicide al."
%% Bonnie 5ar*er