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Florence Nightingale watching the show
Reaching with the tide
Reaching from on high
Florence Nightingale inside, you know
Veiled faces, marching paces

Florence Nightingale

Well, I went in for some medicine
feelin' like a wounded soldier, deathly pale and a woman did come to my bedside
a regular

Stravinsky
Florence Nightingale, DaVinci
 
Unwritten gay romantic, unwritten gay romantic
We’ll shout it from our rooftops, sea to sea
And share our history

Heart on My Sleeve

Idina Menzel

Still I Can't Be Still

1998

She will never be invincible 
She will never be some Florence Nightingale 
Her threshold's invisible 
But she'll hang on like hell 

[Chorus:]

Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come

Tom Waits

Foreign Affairs

1977

Just then florence nightingale dropped her drawers and
Stuck her fat ass half way out of the window with a
Wilson pickett tune
And shouted get a load

Flag Day

The Beautiful South

Soup

2007

Too many Florence Nightingales
Not enough Robin Hoods
Too many halos not enough heroes
Coming up with the goods

So you though you'd like

along in her uniform
Stood moving me away with a gentle hand
Dressed in white like a nightingale
Her name was Florence, Florence of the Land
(I knew

Florence Nightingale,  
 I know you think that I will fail 
 You’ve got to see that, I don’t work that way, 
 Like Audrey Hepburn used to say 
  
 I never

dress the part,
Iv’e got good taste this girls a work of art

I’ll keep my light on like Florence Nightingale,
I know you think that I will fail
You’ve

Flag Day

The Housemartins

Now That's What I Call Quite Good!

1988

Too many Florence Nightingales
Not enough Robin Hoods
Too many halos not enough heroes
Coming up with the goods

So you though you'd like

Play Dead

Esham

Judgement Day, Vol. 2

1992

Florence Nightingale, sippin' on ale
The devil's in the soup as the witches swap tails
Can't save my soul as I was told
Dropped outta school at 16 years old

numbers’
Wished he never chopped an ear off, Florence Nightingale
She can’t afford a day off with lyrics this sick
I’m about to start an epidemic, ‘Virus

Ramparts of chalk

Edward the Confessor
Becket and Boudicca
Churchill, Purcell, Cromwell
Everyone from Florence Nightingale to
Septimus Severus

She's always busy caring
‘Cos that's all she's ever done
She's a thousand Florence Nightingales
All rolled up into one
And people take advantage
But

Too many Florence Nightingales
Not enough Robin Hoods
Too many halos not enough heroes
Coming up with the goods

So you though you'd like to change

bruised, and scarred
Florence Nightingale to your broken hearts
Bring me your bleeding
I'll stitch it up with a bow
Tugging at the sword in the stone

emotions
No body's gon' replace ya
Like Florence Nightingale
You've always been kind to me that
I'm never gon' forget
To me you've always been a Queen
Do I

through the air
Shattered
Christ I'm shattered
Florence Nightingale
Come and care

And in this man made
Hell on Earth
My blood will mingle
With the dirt

She's a cammo-clad angel
Angel of mine

She's a Florence Nightingale
Beside a sick bay bed
With the soft hands of compassion
Gently on a soldier's head

that's left
Supergirl she can save the world Florence Nightingale lady with the lamp
Marie Curie had a chemistry Margaret Hamilton on moons where we land

of the opium eater
They inspire you with what they say
Dreams of the opium eater
Sigmund Freud
Edgar Allan Poe
Florence Nightingale
Jean Cocteau
Sir Conan Doyle

toes
No woman will live with me
No Florence Nightingale to watch the
Johnny Carson show with

If I have a stroke I will lay here for six
Days, my three

bright
The one I dreamt of through many a night

You never wanted me, I yearned for us
While you chased shadows, you were someone else's loss
A Florence

The Miles Away Girl

The Wildhearts

Earth Vs. the Wildhearts

1993

She's always busy caring 'cause that's all she's ever done
She's a thousand Florence Nightingales all rolled up into one
And (well) people take