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Griselda Steiner

Lyric for Transvestite Queen

From the screenplay "THE GODDESS IN EXILE'

 

When she first arrives in New York City in the 1960's, Peruvian sculptress Elvira moves into a Lower East Side tenement where she befriends her Black transvestite neighbor, Sissy. After Sissy has a fight with her lover, she sings "All Ways" at a Warhol Factory party.

 

ALL WAYS

 

I’m a Ghetto Madonna Queen

Hung like a star

From a tin ceiling in a disco bar

 

You only know half of it

The part a story can tell

But he took all of me

What’s left is just a shell

 

I’m a Ghetto Madonna Queen

Hung like a star

From a tin ceiling in a disco bar

 

He made me feel specially

Loved the times I wore a dress

Transformed the inside of me

To a real woman with class

 

My friends knew he was dealing

But I gave him all my heart

When he accused me of stealing

His lies tore me apart

 

Pissed off for no reason

He put a gun to my head

When the cops threw him in jail

I faced a big lonely bed

 

Stranded with the Blues

Branded on my Tattoo

All Ways

 

You only know half of it

The part a story can tell

But he took all of me

What’s left is just a shell

 

I'm a Ghetto Madonna Queen

Hung like a star

From a tin ceiling in a disco bar

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May 2015

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