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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