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♪♪
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[Heart beating]
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["Georgy Girl"
by The Seekers plays]
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♪♪
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♪ Hey, there, Georgy girl
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♪ Swinging down
the street so fancy-free ♪
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♪ Nobody you meet
could ever see ♪
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♪ The loneliness
there inside you ♪
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♪ Hey, there, Georgy girl
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♪ Why do all the boys
just pass you by? ♪
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[Humming]
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Jack Kelly walked into
my granddad's bed shop
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and asked
if he could buy a mattress.
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I was sat at the counter
reading my "Lady Penelope",
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and when he saw me,
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he said he'd have me
on top of it and all.
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The mattress,
not my Lady Penelope.
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My jaw just...
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[Laughs]
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And then he laughed,
and it was so joyous,
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before my granddad heard him
and went after him
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with a Dial-O-Matic.
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Thankfully it weren't worse.
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He were watching over
the butcher's shop next door.
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So I put my jaw back up
and that was that, you know.
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Or at least I thought it was.
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He came back the next day.
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I was just...
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[Laughs]
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Never thought a boy like that
would look at me like that
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and just be like, "Okay."
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Not special like, just okay.
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Okay's fine with me.
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We had our first date
at the bed shop.
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"Why go elsewhere when we have
all we need for romance here,"
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he said.
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I'm not one to argue.
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I locked up and span around
with my hands on my hips
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like I'd seen my nan do
in her dancing classes.
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"Where are the candles then,"
he said.
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Not that we did candles.
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They don't really mix well
with goose eiderdown.
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He got us a pie,
and I let him have some whiskey.
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10 years.
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10 years younger
and all the spaces between us.
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It didn't matter though.
We didn't touch.
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Said he stunk of wool
from working at the docks.
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But there was a magnetism
in our minds.
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I flustered it
its simple promise.
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♪ So shed those downy feathers
and fly a little bit ♪
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♪ Hey, there, Georgy girl
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My ma had
a back street abortion.
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♪ There's another
Georgy deep inside ♪
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To give her a choice,
it were far as catholic pills
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or a quick jab up there
with the needles.
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She chose the pills.
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Didn't do the job.
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Hospitalized her,
barely survived.
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She said she wouldn't
wish the pain on anyone.
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Worse than childbirth.
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Doesn't sound right, that.
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And when I arrived
three years later all crooked,
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she said I were punishment
for her sins.
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Sex was...
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I once walked in on my nan
blowing the hairdryer
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up on her box.
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[Laughs]
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Her face.
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It was like a cross between
when she's found a corner piece
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of a jigsaw and when my ma
occasionally comes home
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and tries to fob off
with the baccy.
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This peculiar reluctant delight.
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[Chuckles]
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It's the first time
she swore at me.
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"You've got hands,
you can bloody knock," she said.
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I just stood there.
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"Won't you burn yourself,"
I asked.
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And she pressed her lips tightly
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like she was trying
to squash a smile.
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"All things need a bit of
an airing from time to time."
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[Laughs]
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I could breathe for
crying with laughter.
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"Best to get it done quick,"
he said.
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"First time won't feel
our minds meeting,
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and then you'll
start to blossom."
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Blossom? What like a...
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[Laughs]
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His voice sounded funny.
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"A cocoon," he said.
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"A cockoon," I replied.
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He laughed and...
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[Inhales, exhales deeply]
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...his skin smelt nice.
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They'd been loading Cheshire
salts on the boats at the docks.
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♪ Hey, there, Georgy girl
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♪ There's another Georgy
deep inside ♪
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♪ Bring out all
the love you hide ♪
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♪ And, oh, what a change
there'd be ♪
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♪ The world would see
a new Georgy girl ♪
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My granddad got
the Bizzies involved.
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"It weren't right,"
they all said.
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So they went calling
for him down at the docks.
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Granddad dragged me
down and all,
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in case he didn't
come by his name.
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I remember how our minds met.
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He was gone.
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Dock-master said, "He's a wooly
back, what would you expect?"
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Then, "A girl like her
will be grateful."
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Granddad didn't need his
Dial-O-Matic that time.
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Doctors describe meeting
my ma as subnormal.
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That was the word.
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You've got a girl,
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but I'm afraid she's
come out as subnormal.
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Polite.
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They said given the outcome
had been unexpected,
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no one would judge if,
if things didn't work out.
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Community care
could be arranged.
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They could fix
to have her sterilized.
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Might be kind.
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Or kinder.
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That's British eugenics for you.
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My nan put a stop to all that.
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14, I were knitting
baby clothes for Barnardo's
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to send over to the colonies.
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Ma walked in, and she
didn't like that at all.
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Snatched them right out of my
hands, pulled the stitches out.
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"No, no more," she said.
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"You're the end of the line."
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I tried to kiss her and lick
the whiskey from her breath.
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Babies need to be kept warm.
Helps them feel safe.
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My ma drove me
in granddad's car.
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My nan couldn't.
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300 miles away,
a small cottage hospital.
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My ma stayed in the car.
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"You've got to get rid,"
she said.
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"It's not right."
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Slipped me bus fare.
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Lit up a fag and shot off
in a plume of smoke.
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I sat in the disappointment
room, last on the list.
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"It might get more
complicated with you."
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I got a pat on the hand.
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They went in, they went out.
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The lady whispered,
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"You're lucky, you know,
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no one's gonna judge
you for getting rid."
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I got another pat.
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My turn.
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I went in.
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Doctor said, "You've made
the right choice."
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I felt my legs pick me up
and carry me away.
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[Rustling]
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[Indistinct talking in distance]
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When I got back,
nan was knitting by the fire.
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She knew.
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I said, "I'm having her."
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Nan cried.
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Said she was too old.
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"No.
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No more, not again."
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"Who's to raise her?"
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"Me," I said.
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[Sobs]
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"You're not fit," she said.
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[Crying]
"Me, I can do it, I can."
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[Sobbing]
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Her lips -- her lips pressed
tightly for a long time.
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Then she patted me
on the hand and said...
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..."Be fair."
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[Crying] Life's not fair.
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[Sobs]
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The -- the point is Father,
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I wanted her.
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Will you let her
know that, please?
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[Sobs]
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Forgive me, Father.
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Forgive me, darling girl.
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♪ Georgy girl
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♪ Hey, there, Georgy girl
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♪ Wake up, Georgy girl
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♪ Hey, there, Georgy girl
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♪ Come on, Georgy girl
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♪ Hey, there, Georgy girl
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♪ Wake up, Georgy girl
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