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My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist, pre-war in Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis And there in the half-light , the provincial midnight To a lone concertina, they drank in cantinas And toasted to Edith Piaf and the fall of the Reich My sister was born in a hovel in Burgundy Left for the cattle but later was found by a communist Who'd deserted his ranks to follow his dream To start up a punk rock band in South Carolina Well, I get letters sometimes they bought the plantation She weeds the tobacco, he offends the nation And they write, "Don't be a stranger, y'hear, sincerely, your sister" So my parents had me to the disgust of the prostitutes Bred in a brothel, surprisingly raised with tender care 'Til the money got tight and they bet me away To a blind brigadier in a game of high stakes Canasta But he made me a sailor on his brigadier ship fleet I know every yardarm from main mast to jib sheet But sometimes I long to be landlocked And to work in a bakery