Mack & Mabel movie - Movies Were Movies lyrics

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Movies Were Movies<br>

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Movies were movies when you paid a dime to escape<br>

Cheering the hero and hissing the man in the cape<br>

Romance and action and thrills<br>

Pardner there's gold in them hills<br>

Movies were movies when during the titles you'd know<br>

You'd get a happy ending<br>

Dozens of blundering cops in a thundering chase<br>

Getting a bang out of lemon meringue in the face<br>

Bandits attacking a train<br>

One little tramp with a cane<br>

Movies were movies were movies when I ran the show<br>

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Movies were movies when Pauline was tied to the track<br>

After she trudged thru the ice with a babe on her back<br>

Girls at the seashore would stand<br>

All in a row in the sand<br>

Rolling their stockings an inch and a quarter below<br>

The line of decency<br>

And Swanson and Keaton and Dressler and William S. Hart<br>

No-one pretended that what we were doing was art<br>

We had some guts and some luck<br>

But we were just makin' a buck<br>

Movies were movies were movies when I ran the show!<br>

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And Swanson and Keaton and Dressler and William S. Hart<br>

No-one pretended that what we were doing was art<br>

We had some guts and some luck<br>

But we were just making a buck<br>

Movies were movies were movies...<br>

When I ran the show!<br>

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[Thanks to Jonathan for lyrics]<br>

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