Why is it their suffering is more picturesque?
Last year's troubles
Last year's troubles are so old fashioned
You can hardly tell them from the petticoats of sin
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Must because their rags are so very Victorian
'Cause here it's just dirty and violent and troubling
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Look at all the waifs of Dickensian England
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The robber on the highway the pirate on the seas
Trouble is still trouble and evil still evil
Sometimes we wonder is there more now, or less?
If we had a tool or could tally the handfulls
Last years troubles they shine up so prettily
Here we have heroes of times that have passed now
They gleam with a luster, they don't have today
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The ones here at home just don't give it their best
The earrings and swashbuckling blouses that please
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But nobody these days has that kind of chin
Over there the petticoats of ladies of virtue
Songwriter: Suzanne Vega
Maybe it's the clothing that's so entertaining
Measure for measure it's the same would be my guess
Publishers: WAIFERSONGS LTD, WB MUSIC CORP.
Last year's troubles