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> "She's Got Papers On Me" and the answer records, Forget about Eamon and Frankee
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tommie
post 3rd August 2023, 10:04 AM
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I was reading John Waters' book Mr Know-It-All and in one section he goes through the history of Richard "Dimples" Fields "She's Got Papers On Me" and the responses it for whatever reason provoked.

To first start off with the track it has its roots in per mr Waters - Shirley Brown's "Woman to Woman"; a classic tune about a woman calling his husband's mistress and letting her know what's what.



On the flip side "She's Got Papers On Me" is about the cheating man singing about how his wife's got "papers" on him. It would be a rather uninteresting fare if it wasn't for Betty Wright that shows up about four and a half minute, letting that cheating dog know that he's gonna have to give her mon-ay to be free and he's gotta go. "Well, well, well..." indeed!



For whatever reason, Barbara Mason felt the urge not so much to respond to mr Dimples', but Betty Wright, letting her know that she might have the papers, but Barbara has the man! Self-reflectingly, she at least admits that she "has no pride".



But wait! Barbara isn't the only one who claimed mr Dimples', but Jean Knight also declared that while Betty's got the papers, she also got the man! Is mr Dimples' possibly cheating on them all? More on that later, but Jean's take is definitively a bit nastier than Barbara's rather laid back put down. "Dealin' with class honey, not trash" Jean proclaims, while also saying that poor Betty's a poor housekeeper, has cheap clothes, an old car and getting fat! Just when you think poor Betty can't take more abuse, in comes mr Dimples' sound-a-like Premium, singing about how he's no longer getting pimples thanks to leaving Betty.



Thankfully, it seems like Betty Wright isn't too worried as she bounced back, bidding adieu to mr Dimples (or is it mr Premium?) and getting a new lover. "Dear mr Look-So-Good", Betty starts off -"speakin' of papers: this paper is to inform you I'm gone, me and the furniture". You go Betty, despite having a crappy house, cheap clothes and an old car, it's truly never too late to start over, though I hope the lyric about leaving that old dog is just a metaphor.



Unfortunately for Barbara Mason, how you get them, is how you lose them - though this time with a disco twist! "Another Man" explains what happened to their relationship - "I had gone out one day and bought me a very, very sexy dress[i]", Barbara explains. "[i]And opened up my closet and it had disappeared... Lord I hope the man is not wearing my -- oooh child!!!".


Now that apparently mr Dimples is a cross-dressing gay man, Tout Sweet felt the need to another chapter to the story with "Another Man is Twice As Nice" - seemingly not only declaring that Betty's paramour is gay as f*** now, but also daring the mistress into lesbianism: "he's got a lady too and I already know he's crazy about you".



Unfortunately, this is seemingly the end of the story, but who knows? Maybe someone else will add another chapter to the story now that it's been 40 or so years since the last one?
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