Now folks, here's a story about Minnie the Moocher
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She was a red hot hoochie coocher
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She was the roughest, toughest frail
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but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale
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Hidee-Hidee-Hidee-hi()
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Hodee-hodee-hodee-ho()
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Heedey-hee-dee-hee-dee hee ()
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Hidee-hidee-hidee-ho()
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She messed around with a bloke named Smoky
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She loved him though he was cokey
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He took her down to Chinatown
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And showed her how to kick that gong around ()
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Hidee-Hidee-Hidee-hi()
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Wooooooh()
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Heedey-hee-dee-hee-dee hee ()
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Hidee-hidee-hidee-ho()
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She had a dream that the King of Sweden
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He gave her things that she was needin'
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He built her a house of gold and steel
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A diamond car with platinum wheels
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hidee-hidee-hidee-hidee-hidee-hidee-hi()
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hodee-hodee-hodee-hodee-hodee-hodee-ho()
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scoodley-woo-scoodley-woo-scoodley-woodley-woodley-woo()
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zit-dit-dit-dit-dittle-but-dut-duttleoo-skit-dit-skittle-but-dit-zoy()
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he gave her his townhouse and his racing horses
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Each meal she ate was a dozen courses
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Had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes
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she sat around and counted them all a million times
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Hidee-Hidee-Hidee-hi()
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Hodee-hodee-hodee-ho()
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Heedey-hee-dee-hee-dee hee ()
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Hidee-hidee-hidee-ho()
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Now Min and Smokey, they started jaggin
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They got a free ride in a wagon
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She gave him money to pay her bail
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But he left her flat in the county jail
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Hidee-Hidee-Hidee-hey
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Hedee-Hedee-He
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Hodee-Hodee-ho
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Oh Minn met old Deacon Lowdown
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He preached to her that she oughta slowdown
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But Minnie wiggled her jelly roll
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And Deacon Lowdown yelled please save my soul
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Hodee-Hidee-Hidee-hey
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Hedee-Hedee-He
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Hodee-Hodee-ho
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They took her where they put the crazies
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And now poor Min is pushin up those dasies
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You heard my story. this ends my song
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She was just a good gal but they done her wrong
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Poor Min, Poor Min, Poor Min.
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Minnie the Moocher
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Bobby Darin |