police are looking around at twenty three

they found her hanging from her swollen feet

they saw her dance last in woolworth street

she loved to take her clothes off

she got the nick name porta bubble joan

they found her dead, dead as nails at home

and she said i'm gonna be another marylin

bleach my head and get real thin

and everybody wants to be the carnival queen

everybody wants to be the carnival

king or queen

we all read the books

she takes her clothes off one by one

off again