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Susie Was A Rockette

from Disappearance by Larry Hirshberg

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Saw the Rockettes on Letterman once. The camera panned the faces of the dancers and stopped, close up, on one. I suppose this song is about her...

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1952, HER LEGS KNEW WHAT TO DO
THE BUS FROM KANSAS CITY, WAS LONG NOT VERY PRETTY
A ROOM WITH ANOTHER GIRL, AUDITIONS FOR THE WORLD
THE PHONE RANG BY HER BED, RADIO CITY SAID..

chorus:
SUSIE WAS A ROCKETTE
SHE KICKED ‘EM HIGH BOYS, SHE WAS SET
OLD MANHATTAN JUST MADE HER WET
SUSIE WAS A ROCKETTE

SKIP TO ’61, SUSIE AND HER SON
ON THE TRAIN HE HOLDS HER HAND, AT THE MUSEUM HE’S HER LITTLE MAN
THEY STAND IN FRONT OF A MISTY DANCER, SHE REMEMBERS WHEN THERE WAS NO ANSWER
BACK ON THE STREET HE SETS THE PACE, POWDERED SUGAR ON HIS FACE

CHORUS

A NIGHT IN ’56, BACKSTAGE SHE HAD HER PICK
SHE WAS ATTRACTED TO JOHNNY ACE, HE HAD THAT SHADOW ON HIS FACE
SHE KNEW TO FIND LOVE ANYWHERE, SHE DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO BE SCARED
IN A FEW WEEKS WHEN HE DIDN’T CALL, SHE ONLY VAGUELY FELT HER NUMBER FALL

CHORUS

1973, SUSIE CAME TO ME
MY FATHER MARRIED HER. ME AND LEGS WE’RE LIKE BROTHERS, SURE
WE’VE GOT OUR OWN WIVES NOW, WE ALL LIKE TO GO DOWNTOWN
RADIO CITY STILL GIVES OUR SUSIE SOME KIND OF A THRILL..

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from Disappearance, released December 31, 2001
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The years reveal what the moments are made to conceal.

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