Rabbit Fur Coat

I was of poor folk But my mother had a rabbit fur coat And a girl of less character pushed her down the L.A. River ""Hand over that rabbit fur coat"" She put a knife to her throat ""Hand over that rabbit fur coat"" When my ma refused, the girl kicked dirt on her blouse ""Stay away from my mansion house"" My mother really suffered for that Spent her life in a gold plated body cast Now, you ask, did she get that girl back? She paid a visit to that mansion house She knew the girl was not there But her father was in cufflinks with slicked-back black hair He invited her in, they never sang a note But she took off that rabbit fur coat And who do you think came home? Miss so and so She took one look at my ma and what did she say? ""Why are you stealing from my mansion house?"" ""No, I'm in love with Mr. so and so He invited me in, I'm a girl no more"" Then she dragged my ma out by her throat ""Hand over that rabbit fur coat"" Let's move ahead twenty years, shall we? She was waitressing on welfare, we were living in the valley A lady says to my ma ""you treat your girl as your spouse You can live in a mansion house"" And so we did And I became a 100.000 dollar kid When I was old enough to realize, wiped the dust from my mother's eyes It's all this for that rabbit fur coat But I'm not bitter about it I've packed up my things and let them have at it And the fortune faded, as fortunes often do And so did that mansion house Where my ma is now, I don't know She was living in her car, I was living on the road And I hear she's putting that stuff up her nose And still wearing that rabbit fur coat But mostly I'm a hypocrite I sing songs about the deficit But when I sell out and leave Omaha, what will I get? A mansion house and a rabbit fur coat