Ribald Classic: The Ballad Of Hookshop Kate

December, 1982

Did you ever hear of the gruesome fateThat befell our heroine, Hookshop Kate?Though now she has passed to the Great Beyond,She was once the queen of the demimonde.She wasn't a beauty for a beauty show,But her talent for jazzing was sheer vertigo!And the one pet brag of Hookshop KateWas she never yet had met her mate.When the news of the gold stampede grew hot,Hookshop Kate, she headed out;And all she needed of that was a whiff,For she'd heard that cocks in the North froze stiff.She landed in Fai...

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