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now maria, she is a teller down at the savings & loan most of the days she finds different ways to kill time while she sits alone but it's tuesday and the fifteenth tonight is the night of the bash the workers of town plow the bank doors down to get all their paychecks cashed it's payday in the village the house band is a playin don't plan for tomorrow cuz everybody's stayin overnight at the pirate's patch you won't believe the buzz you'll catch it don't come through drink it don't come through smoke it comes through the joy of the village folk now alonzo, he is a foreman up at the ferguson plant from eight until four Songtextehe will shell out the chores his laborers sulk cuz they can't but it's mid-month and a tuesday tonight at the patch they'll be found celebrated and vindicated cuz alonzo will pick up their rounds devil trumpets blowin angel choirs singin don't call on the telephone cuz we won't hear the ringin chorus now alonzo and maria, meet about half past nine he makes a deal to pick up the meal if she will just pick up the wine there's a big line at the nightclub it winds down the neighborhood block the manager thinks and hopes they will drink cuz he's kept twice the beer in stock chorus *dedicated to the village folk at bad habits grille in arlington, virginia Aus Songtexte Mania