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Elly - Bernard Fanning

Elly wrapped her nineteen years

In a coat from '41

Had the looks that'd make a grown man cry

From the diamantina

River country

She crossed the dry mid west

From her childhood dreams and sheltered schemes

She broke the ties

The commercial man

Made blunt demands

As they travelled south by east

Elly into came a woman over night

He set her down

In the heart of town

The millionaires retreat

She gazed up at the tall glass

At surfers paradise

If the decks been marked before the deal

You learn to compromise

You get to try the cool hand with the dice

And you learn to live off losers

For they make the mistakes twice

You're living in high society but you're street wise

Just to survive

Just to survive

With those centrefold looks

And bay blue eyes

Man she stacked them in

All the senators

And all the doctors called her madam

With her fifteen girls she built a world

A pleasured paradise

On what a man of god would call the wages of sin

If the decks been marked before the deal

You learn to compromise

You get to pray the cool hand with the dice

And you learn to live off losers

For they make the mistakes twice

You're living in high society but you're street wise

Just to survive

Just to survive

Just to survive

Just to survive

Wealthy woman

Drinks with diamond rings

Twenty stories high

Looks out as the sun lifts from the sea

To make it

To the top

Elly sacrificed the lot

And found that seven figure sum

Was way too high a fee

If the decks been marked before the deal

You learn to compromise

You get to pray the cool hand with the dice

And you learn to live off losers

For they make the mistakes twice

You're living in high society

You're street wise

Just to survive

Just to survive

Just to survive

Just to survive