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Jon English & Jackie Love - "Lola Montez Tribute" (The N.S.W. Royal Bicentennial Concert January 25, 1988)

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00:05When the gold ran out in California,
00:07thousands of prospectors scrambled onto every available ship
00:10across the Pacific down under.
00:13But the miners demanded entertainment,
00:15and no one created quite as much excitement and trouble as Lola Montez.
00:19Singer, dancer, lover to the crown, heads of Europe,
00:22when Lola visited the gold fields of Ballarat,
00:24she set the place alight.
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01:18So, what do you do when the heat is stinking? What do you do when your hide is shrinking? What do you do to escape the clinking sun?
01:28Look for a spot in the shade of thinking, spend all your gold on the rock you're drinking, think you'll be cool when your crew is sinking. What?
01:36Oh, yeah. And so you look at the heat start rising and shivering off the gums, and you find it when the move by ups and downs. Yeah, and all that suddenly suddenly suddenly what's to come?
01:55Right.
02:06wow
02:13yeah
02:17yeah
02:23cool
02:27so
02:31Oh, my God.
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03:58The opening of the master floor!
04:28Let me sing, let me dance
04:37Let me play the game of love at every chance
04:41Never a moment lost
04:45Never something to count a cost
04:50Let me dance, let me sing
04:55My lover, be a beggar of the king
05:00Hurry up, who will wait
05:04When tomorrow may be too late
05:25Let me dance, let me dance, let me dance, let me dance
05:36Ladies and gentlemen, of God's love and surrender, this is please, Ms. Laura Montez of happiness, Spider-Tax
05:44And a prayer is woven in a pleasure's way
06:01A silver net has been to save my brain
06:05Beware
06:11My promise, passion is for love, but pain
06:19The secret plan is to find your way
06:23Beware
06:29I curse my spirit
06:36And they complicate, pay the price
06:41All bound for hell
06:45Down the primrose of the paradise
06:49I curse my web
06:52And theygan my howp James
06:54And I rallied with my voice and kiss
06:57Beware
06:59Beware
07:01Beware
07:02Beware
07:06Beware!
07:36Beware!
08:06Beware!
08:36Beware!
09:06Beware!

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