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Intro

Eight days straight

Strapped down to a hospital Bed

‘Cause you took spray paint

And scribbled Peace on the walls of the city

When policemen came

Not a quiet surrender was what you gave, oh

When they brought you home

You tore off your clothes

And danced in the garden

Singing halleluiah, oh

When they brought you home

The poems you wrote

About a brave young girl

And the snake that swallowed her whole

Your mother cried

When you told her

You were Bernadette Peters

She was terrified

Called me up pleaded

Won’t you come see her?

And upon arrival

You ran outside

To cartwheel down the drive

When they brought you home

You tore off your clothes

And danced in the garden

Singing halleluiah, oh

When they brought you home

The poems you wrote

About a brave young girl

And the snake that swallowed her whole

Oh, When they brought you home

You tore off your clothes

And danced in the garden

Singing halleluiah, oh

When they brought you home

The poems you wrote

About a brave young girl

And the snake that swallowed her whole

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