<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=80862" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Magdalene Laundries</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was an unmarried girl<br>I'd just turned twenty-seven<br>When they sent me to the sisters<br>For the way men looked at me<br>Branded as a jezebel<br>I knew I was not bound for Heaven<br>I'd be cast in shame<br>Into the Magdalene laundries<br>Most girls come here pregnant<br>Some by their own fathers<br>Bridget got that belly<br>By her parish priest<br>We're trying to get things white as snow<br>All of us woe-begotten-daughters<br>In the streaming stains<br>Of the Magdalene laundries<br>Prostitutes and destitutes<br>And temptresses like me--<br>Fallen women--<br>Sentenced into dreamless drudgery ...<br>Why do they call this heartless place<br>Our Lady of Charity?<br>Oh charity!<br>These bloodless brides of Jesus<br>If they had just once glimpsed their groom<br>Then they'd know, and they'd drop the stones<br>Concealed behind their rosaries<br>They wilt the grass they walk upon<br>They leech the light out of a room<br>They'd like to drive us down the drain<br>At the Magdalene laundries<br>Peg O'Connell died today<br>She was a cheeky girl<br>A flirt<br>They just stuffed her in a hole!<br>Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring!<br>One day I'm going to die here too<br>And they'll plant me in the dirt<br>Like some lame bulb<br>That never blooms come any spring<br>Not any spring<br>No, not any spring<br>Not any spring</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />song performed by by Joni Mitchell - <i><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/" target=_blank></a></i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=80862" data-title="The Magdalene Laundries" data-description="I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven I'd be cast in shame Into the Magdalene laundries Most girls come here pregna..."></div> </div> </div>

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