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Bride of the Ripper

from Hauntology by Bill White

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some people got no bed
just a mattress on the floor
that is where i found her
when i came through the open door
im a cop without a badge
working on a personal case
i can tell how she suffered
just by looking at her face

i know the peddlers of the flesh
and what they do to strippers
nobody knows a thing
about jack the ripper

she would take off her sandals
but could never be a wife
she was a poor little rich girl
getting high on the low life
now shes just another body
with an ID tag
they took her off the mattress
and put her body in a body bag

she could do the hokey pokey
and the gentlemen would tip her
but she couldnt break her date
with jack the ripper

he can pull a long name
off a register so short
it would drown a drunken sailor
before he left the port
he loves the feel of her body
through the black and white dress
as he pushes a well placed ice pick
through the back of her neck

We all know whose foot
will fill the slipper
but nobody knows anything
about jack the ripper

Five months I walked
This London beat
since I lost my license
On the Manhattan streets
They think I am hunting
Somebody else
But the truth is
I have been hunting myself

In the sky i espy
two contrasting dippers
Down here its just me
And the bride of the ripper

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from Hauntology, released September 21, 2023
written and performed by Bill White

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