The Flying Burrito Brothers

Juanita

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No affection were the words that stuck on my mind
When she walked out on me for the very last time
Oh mamma sweet mamma can you tell me what to say
I don't know what I've done to be treated this way
In a cold dirty room that's where I found myself
With a bottle of wine and some pills off the shelf
Oh mamma sweet mamma can you tell me what to say
I don't know what I've done and I'm feeling so ashamed
Then an angel appeared she was just 17
In a dirty old town with a conscious so clean
Oh mamma sweet mamma can you tell me what to say
She's brought back the life that I once threw away

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annazoff On Oct 29, 2009

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by limerence

11y ago

"Juanita was the sister of Arlo Guthrie’s wife. She was a great gal. She was at the Troubadour, one of the watering holes we used to go to all the time. There was a house we were living at in the valley. At the time, she was exactly as the song says – we were down in the dumps. We both could relate to this loneliness: “Then an angel appeared, she was just 17.” I don’t think she was really 17."-chris hillman

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by heritage18 7y ago

@limerence , she still is "a great gal."

by bobquack1

10y ago

Juanita was a girl the Burritos met in Hollywood. Her sister was married to Arlo Guthrie. She appears in a photo with them standing in a doorway.

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