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The Hag and The Whore

from The Hag and the Whore (album) by Steph Sweet

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The Hag and The Whore

When she was a maid, she danced so fine as if her feet were feathers.
Enchanting all with her big, blue eyes and lips that hint of pleasure.
She fell in love with the Blacksmith’s son, who promised her a plenty.
But his words were lies and she was too poor and so he promptly left her.
No maidenhead to call her own, she fled to the big city.
The Bristol streets were paved with gold for one who was so pretty.
A one-eyed crab, with greying hair, sold her to the whore-house.
To earn her keep, with her waving feet, as timid as a dormouse.
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
For years they queued up round the square to visit such a beauty.
Her shining hair and her silken silk, she meekly did her duty.
The older whores told her, “Save your gold, for nothing lasts forever.
A woman’s looks will flake and fade like bedposts in bad weather.”
Save your gold girls, save your gold.
Save your gold girls, save your gold.
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
She did not mind the passing time, her wrinkled loss of glamour.
She never liked all the eager eyes and yelps and whoops and clamour.
No more to bare her withered dugs to any that would lick them.
No more the whore, the happy hag went home rich to her brethren.
Save your gold girls, oh save your gold.
Save your gold girls, oh save your gold.
Who is the hag and who is the whore?
Who is the hag and who is the whore?

©Steph Sweet 2016 All Rights Reserved

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from The Hag and the Whore (album), released September 23, 2016

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Steph Sweet UK

Born under a cloud of red Saharan sand and singing before I could talk.
“Deeply embracing a true underground spirit is Steph Sweet. It is ushered in with a specifity to it all that lingers on the margins of the fine line between genius and madness, but you don’t hear music like this too often.”
U&I Music Magazine
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