VAGINAL VANDALS

She forgot you quit the altar boys
'Cause you couldn't reach the handle
They banned you from the sorority
So you went and joined the vaginal vandals

You broke into the church and
Raised the poor box figuring yourself qualified
You skipped school and never changed your sox
So ??? ["no one" or "mama"] would know where you stand

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Page last updated: 22 Nov 2009

Lyrics Sheet

The Spring 1997 issue of the Backstreets catalogue contained an auction for an original Bruce Springsteen handwritten lyric sheet. Minimum bid for the sheet was $600. There is a small picture of the sheet printed in the catalogue; however, the lyrics are partially obscured, and some of the lines visible in the picture are rather hard to read.

This was was just a scrap of paper, untitled, with some scribbled lines: 17 lines of actual song lyrics, plus 10 lines of "rhyming pairs" that are not directly related to the song. No music noted. There is no evidence that this untitled tidbit of lyrics Backstreets auctioned off ever became a song. Springsteen (even today) often jots down a few lines of lyric on paper (just bits and pieces of lyrical ideas) but these are just fragments and it would be a mistake to classify these as songs without further supporting evidence. There is no further evidence these few lines of scribbled lyrics ever became a song.

Title

The song is presumably called "Vaginal Vandals" and the words "vaginal vandals" only appear once, in the first verse.

Date

Backstreets described the song as having "a religious bent", and most likely being from 1972, which, considering the nature of the lyrics, would make sense as it seems to blend in with some of Bruce's other material from that period.

Credits

Thanks Peter (from Lost In The Flood) and Matthew Hare for the help.

Request

If you have a better copy of the lyrics sheet, or any additional info about this song, please contact me via the below form or by email: . You will be credited. Thanks in advance.