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Sitting on the verandah, with my old girl Miranda

5 o'clock shadows soft in the gloom

In love after a fashion, we're broke, spent all our passion

9 o'clock and we're off to our room



`Coming like a habit, `coming like a ritual

The same old tete-`-tete in your dreamy feather-bed

You give lessons in parrot fashion love

The same old tete-`-tete in your dreamy feather-bed

You give lessons in parrot fashion love



Drunk and disabled we're both under the table

With the crumbs, in the doldrums we play

Good loving and laughter, we both know what we're after

And there don't seem a lot left to say



`Coming like a habit, `coming like a ritual

The same old tete-`-tete in your dreamy feather-bed

You give lessons in parrot fashion love

The same old tete-`-tete in your dreamy feather-bed

You give lessons in parrot fashion love





Polly want a cracker, polly want a cracker



The same old tete-`-tete in your dreamy feather-bed

You give lessons in parrot fashion love

The same old tete-`-tete in your dreamy feather-bed

You give lessons in parrot fashion love..love love..love.



The same old monotone

You're gonna wind up on your own

You learned your lesson, no more parrot fashion love

parrot fashion love