[Jim Hayes]

Hitched

Marnie, the Lodger in Jamaica Inn, was a Foreign Correspondent although
she was Young and Innocent, with at this Stage, Fright, crying by The Rear Window.
"I Confess", she cried to The Farmer’s Wife, as she tippled a little Champagne,
"The Trouble with Harry, a Manxman, is that we’re both Strangers on a Train".

It’s The Wrong Man who gave me The Ring, she’d realized straight away,
and she’d a Suspicion, Without a Shadow of a Doubt, he’s a Notorious roué,
he’ll Blackmail me and my Easy Virtue she sobbed in a Frenzy of grief,
I’ll Dial M for Murder and maybe a cop will help me To Catch a Thief.

“A Torn Curtain does not mean Murder” the cop said when he came,
"at Number 17 The Birds who rent there are into the Skin Game".
The Man Who Knew Too Much about them both thought them Rich and Strange;
he called one Rebecca and the other a Psycho in the Juno and the Paycock range.

Her Topaz eyes were Spellbound as the cop gave her a Lifeboat, a hope--
like a Saboteur, engaged in Sabotage, or a Secret Agent, he got a Rope
and took The 39 Steps, North by Northwest, when they jumped from the window and fled
in spite of Vertigo. The Lady Vanishes, as Mr and Mrs Smith they wed.

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