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This is my story, and it won't take long My name is Joanna, and I have done wrong I was a young girl, no more than thirteen Killed me a bad man for what he had seen Lives out on the west coast, down by Coos Bay My mamma went workin' every night and day The [?] were bloomin' for to welcome the sun Trailers ranged out along the old highway 101 Now that you're at the shipyard, the iron works there [They'd all fall the night cruise] that sent them away And there's Donny Dakota, yeah, from just down a way Gettin' drunk on a Sunday, yeah, down by the bay Had a face like a dark cloud, and his voice like the storms With no work [at all, boys], yeah, he just stayed home Yeah, he'd wandered the trailer park where I lived Banged on the wall just to scare all us kids One day I came out, and in the sunlight I stood Told him to fuck off, boy, like no one else would He took a fist full of my hair, and dragged me around To the back of the trailer, and held me down on the ground And as he pulled my dress up I could see the clouds overhead SongtexteSo airy and bright as any thought in my head Oh, the [?] were bloomin' for to welcome the sun And all the trailers lined up out on old highway 101 That night as I lay in my bed, wide awake Lookin' out of my window, out over the bay Well I rose and I got my mamma's gun from her drawer She was sleepin' so soundly as I walked out the door Found Donny Dakota, from just down the way Asleep in the tall grass down by the bay The stars were all shinin' and the moon was so red Shot him three times in the back of the head Aus Songtexte Mania