Cab Calloway Lyrics

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San Francisco Fan Lyrics

San Francisco Fan 

 Loved a no-good gamblin' man; 

 She drank the coffee dregs so she could fry his eggs 

 In a golden fryin' pan. 

 

 Can-canned by command, 

 Of the Gold Rush Cafe clan, 

 She gave her man her pay; he gambled it away 

 Playing Chinatown fan-tan. 

 

 Once they caught him cheatin' 

 And he knew that he was beaten, 

 When a miner aimed a pistol at his head, 

 Fanny, when she seen 'em, 

 Ran and jumped right inbetween 'em, 

 And she stopped a dozen slugs of poison lead. 

 

 There was Fanny dyin' 

 While a hundred men were cryin' 

 And the angels up above were cryin', too; 

 When seven horses started draggin' 

 Fanny's coffin in a wagon 

 Down a dusty California avenue. 

 

 San Francisco Fan 

 Gave her life to save her man, 

 A man who wasn't worth a shovelful of earth 

 From the grave of San Francisco Fan. 

 

 San Francisco Fan 

 Gave her life to save a man, 

 A man who wasn't worth a shovelful of earth 

 From the grave of San Francisco Fan.