Biography:
The Divine Comedy is a baroque pop band now based in Dublin, Ireland, fronted by Neil Hannon.
Neil Hannon, Originally from Derry, has been the only ever-present member of the band, being its founder in 1989 when he was joined by John McCullagh and Kevin Traynor. Their first album, the heavily R.E.M.-influenced and now-deleted Fanfare for the Comic Muse, enjoyed little success though. A couple of equally unsuccessful EPs - Timewatch (1991); Europop (1992) - were to follow
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Other songs:
- Catherine The Great
- Funny Peculiar
- Have You Ever Been In Love
- How Can You Leave Me On My Own
- I Joined The Foreign Legion (to Forget)
- Neapolitan Girl
- A Desperate Man
- A Lady Of A Certain Age
- Absent Friends
- At The Indie Disco
- Bad Ambassador
- Becoming More Like Alfie
- Come Home Billy Bird
- Down In The Streets Below
- Everyone Knows Except You
- Eye Of The Needle
- I Joined The Foreign Legion To Forget
- I Like
- If
- Love What You Do
- Mastermind
- Mother Dear
- National Express
- Our Mutual Friend
- Perfect Lovesong
- Songs Of Love
- Summerhouse
- Sunrise
- The Light Of Day
- The Pact
- To Die A Virgin
- To The Rescue
- Tonight We Fly
- Woman Of The World
- Your Daddys Car
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Through the rubble of the bombed out streets
Through the squalor and the poverty
Walks a proud Neapolitan girl
With a head of thick black curls
Em A Em A
She doesn't care 'bout right or wrong
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Just about where the next meal's coming from
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Innocence can often be
Another one of war's casualties
But innocence can be restored
With a visit to the Professore
Em A Em A
For ten thousand lire he
Em A Em A
Can find mislaid virginity
Bm F#m Bm F#m
His dirty needle leaves a trail of scars
Bm F#m E7 G D
And keeps her at the peak of her sexual powers
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She takes him riding on the 133
Through the city to the cemetery
Where the Neapolitan girls go
Down behind the headstones
Em A Em A
Oh the quickening breath and muffled cries
Em A Em A
As life and death become entwined
Bm F#m Bm F#m
Now baby just pretend you don't see 'em
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Lusting in the mausoleum
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Lola hhas a lover in the city bank
And Lola has a lover in the British ranks
Well Lola has them over in the middle of the day
Cause Lola makes the neighbours all jealous that way
Em A Em A
She doesn't care 'bout right or wrong
Em A Em A D
Just about where the next meal's coming from
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Neapolitan girl
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Neapolitan girl
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