Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat

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  1. rockitmarty said:

    Default Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat

    I'm looking for the lyrics or a quick synopsis of the song's narrative. Thanks
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    I was of poor folk
    But my mother had a rabbit fur coat
    And a girl of less character pushed her down the L.A. River
    Hand over that rabbit fur coat

    She put a knife to her throat
    Hand over that rabbit fur coat
    When my ma refused, the girl kicked dirt on her blouse
    Stay away from my mansion house

    My mother really suffered for that
    Spent her life in a gold plated body cast
    Now, you ask, did she get that girl back?
    She paid a visit to that mansion house

    She knew the girl was not there
    But her father was in cufflinks with slicked-back black hair
    He invited her in, they never sang a note
    But she took off that rabbit fur coat

    And who do you think came home?
    Miss so and so
    She took one look at my ma and what did she say?
    ""Why are you stealing from my mansion house?""

    No, I'm in love with Mr. so and so
    He invited me in, I'm a girl no more
    Then she dragged my ma out by her throat
    Hand over that rabbit fur coat

    Let's move ahead twenty years, shall we?
    She was waitressing on welfare, we were living in the valley
    A lady says to my ma you treat your girl as your spouse
    You can live in a mansion house

    And so we did
    And I became a 100.000 dollar kid
    When I was old enough to realize, wiped the dust from my mother's eyes
    It's all this for that rabbit fur coat

    But I'm not bitter about it
    I've packed up my things and let them have at it
    And the fortune faded, as fortunes often do
    And so did that mansion house

    Where my ma is now, I don't know
    She was living in her car, I was living on the road
    And I hear she's putting that stuff up her nose
    And still wearing that rabbit fur coat

    But mostly I'm a hypocrite
    I sing songs about the deficit
    But when I sell out and leave Omaha, what will I get?
    A mansion house and a rabbit fur coat