Tom: D
D A
When Lola was born the First World War
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Had only just ended 3 years before
D A
In ’77 she took a flight
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She told a reporter who asked her that it was alright
D A
2002 is the year that she died
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She lived in Manhattan on the Upper West Side
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If you look on the web that’s almost all that will show
A D
There once was a Lola Aglialoro
[Verse 2]
D A
She always said she was from England
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But after she died I learned she came from the mainland
D A
The last Kindertransport was the one shе was on
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And she spent her youth thеn being bombed in London
D A
She met a soldier, followed him back
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How many kids she raised, who could keep track
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Only 2 of her own, but so many others would follow
A D
My nanny Lola Aglialoro
[Verse 3]
D A
She always said she never had
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A problem with the gangsters they said were so bad
D A
She would laugh loudly, as she often did
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Saying I knew all the gangsters when they were wee kids
D A
She said not one child should be forsaken
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Maybe because her own childhood had been taken
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A woman of joy, a woman of sorrow
A D
A lady named Lola Aglialoro
[Verse 4]
D A
As I grew up I still kept in touch
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With this woman who had affected so many so much
D A
My lady of laughter, my mother of mirth
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Who seemed to know so deeply what laughter was worth
D A
There’s no Stumbling Stone to recall when she came
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And she long ago changed both her first and last name
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But now there’s a song so someone out there might know
A D
There was once a Lola Aglialoro
