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Natalie Merchant - Carnival
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Natalie Merchant - Wonder
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Natalie Merchant - Motherland
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Natalie Merchant - Beloved Wife
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Natalie Merchant - Jealousy
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Natalie Merchant - Kind & Generous
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Natalie Merchant - Break Your Heart
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Natalie Merchant - I'm Not Gonna Beg
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Natalie Merchant - Life Is Sweet
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Natalie Merchant - My Skin
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Natalie Merchant - Space Oddity
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Natalie Merchant - Texas
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Natalie Merchant - The Sleepy Giant
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Natalie Merchant - Effigy
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Natalie Merchant - Ophelia
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Natalie Merchant - Sally Ann
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Natalie Merchant - San Andreas Fault
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Natalie Merchant - The Living
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Natalie Merchant - The Missionary's Daughter
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Natalie Merchant - Because the Night
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Natalie Merchant - Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
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Natalie Merchant - Dust Bowl
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Natalie Merchant - Giving Up Everything
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Natalie Merchant - Go Down, Moses
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Natalie Merchant - Griselda
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Natalie Merchant - House Carpenter
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Natalie Merchant - I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
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Natalie Merchant - I May Know The Word
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Natalie Merchant - I Saw a Ship A-sailing
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Natalie Merchant - In the Ghetto
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Natalie Merchant - King of May
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Natalie Merchant - Ladybird
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Natalie Merchant - Noah's dove
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Natalie Merchant - Nursery Rhyme Of Innocence And Experience
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Natalie Merchant - One Fine Day
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Natalie Merchant - Poor Wayfaring Stranger
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Natalie Merchant - Put The Law On You
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Natalie Merchant - River
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Natalie Merchant - Saint Judas
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Natalie Merchant - Seven Years
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Natalie Merchant - Soldier, Soldier
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Natalie Merchant - Sympathy For The Devil
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Natalie Merchant - The Blind Men And The Elephant
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Natalie Merchant - The Dancing Bear
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Natalie Merchant - The End
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Natalie Merchant - The Lowlands Of Holland
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Natalie Merchant - The Man In The Wilderness
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Natalie Merchant - The Peppery Man
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Natalie Merchant - This House Is On Fire
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Natalie Merchant - To Sir With Love (feat. Michael Stipe)
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Natalie Merchant - Tower of Babel
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Natalie Merchant - Which Side Are You On?
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Natalie Merchant - (From) Both Sides Now
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Natalie Merchant - Adventures of Isabel
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Natalie Merchant - After The Gold Rush
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Natalie Merchant - All I Want
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Natalie Merchant - Autumn Lullaby
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Natalie Merchant - Baby I Love You
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Natalie Merchant - Black Sheep
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Natalie Merchant - Bleezer's Ice-Cream
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Natalie Merchant - Build A Levee
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Natalie Merchant - But Not For Me
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Natalie Merchant - Calico Pie
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Natalie Merchant - Children Go Where I Send Thee
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Natalie Merchant - Come Take A Trip In My Airship
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Natalie Merchant - Cowboy Romance
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Natalie Merchant - Crazy man Michael
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Natalie Merchant - Crying, My Little One
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Natalie Merchant - Diver boy
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Natalie Merchant - Down on Penny's farm
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Natalie Merchant - Equestrienne
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Natalie Merchant - Frozen Charlotte
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Natalie Merchant - Golden Boy
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Natalie Merchant - Gulf Of Araby
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Natalie Merchant - How You've Grown
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Natalie Merchant - If No One Ever Marries Me
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Natalie Merchant - Indian Names
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Natalie Merchant - It Makes A Change
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Natalie Merchant - It's A-coming
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Natalie Merchant - Just Can't Last
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Natalie Merchant - Last goodbye
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Natalie Merchant - Lowlands Of Holland
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Natalie Merchant - Lulu
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Natalie Merchant - Maggie And Milly And Molly And May
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Natalie Merchant - Maggie Said
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Natalie Merchant - Misguided Angel
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Natalie Merchant - Not In This Life
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Natalie Merchant - Ode To Billy Joe
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Natalie Merchant - Ophelia
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Natalie Merchant - Owensboro
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Natalie Merchant - Peace train
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Natalie Merchant - Santa Baby
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Natalie Merchant - Seven Deadly Sins
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Natalie Merchant - Son Of A Preacher Man
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Natalie Merchant - Spring And Fall: To a Young Child
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Natalie Merchant - Sweet And a Lullaby
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Natalie Merchant - Take A Look
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Natalie Merchant - Tell Yourself
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Natalie Merchant - The Ballad of Henry Darger
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Natalie Merchant - The Gulf of Araby
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Natalie Merchant - The Janitor's Boy
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Natalie Merchant - The King Of China's Daughter
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Natalie Merchant - The Land Of Nod
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Natalie Merchant - The Letter
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Natalie Merchant - The Walloping Window Blind
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Natalie Merchant - The Worst Thing
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Natalie Merchant - Thick As Thieves
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Natalie Merchant - Topsyturvey-world
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Natalie Merchant - Vain And Careless
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Natalie Merchant - Verdi Cries
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Natalie Merchant - Weeping Pilgrim
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Natalie Merchant - When They Ring The Golden Bells
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Natalie Merchant - Where I Go
Griselda
Natalie Merchant
She isn't contented with four meals a day,
Like breakfast and dinner and supper and tea
(I've had to put tea after supper-you see
Why, don't you?)
Griselda is greedy as greedy can be.
She snoops about the larder
For sundry small supplies,
She breaks the little crusty bits
Off rims of apple pies,
She pokes the roast-potato-dish
When sunday dinner's done,
And if there are two left in it
Griselda snitches one;
Cold chicken and cold cauliflower
She pulls in little chunks-
And when cook calls:
"What are you doing there?"
Griselda bunks.
Griselda is greedy. Well, that's how she feels,
She simply can't help eating in-between meals,
And always forgets what it's leading to, though
The doctor has frequently told her: "you know
Why, don't you?"
When the stomach-ache starts and griselda says:
"Oh!"
She slips down to the dining-room
When everyone's in bed,
For cheese-rind on the supper-tray,
And buttered crusts of bread,
A biscuit from the biscuit-box,
Lump sugar from the bowl,
A gherkin from the pickle-jar,
Are all griselda's toll;
She tastes the salted almonds,
And she tries the candied fruits-
And when dad shouts:
"Who is it down below?"
Griselda scoots.
Griselda is greedy. Her relatives scold,
And tell her how sorry she'll be when she's old,
She will lose her complexion, she's sure to grow fat,
She will spoil her inside-does she know what she's at?-
(Why do they?)
Some people are greedy. Leave it at that.