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THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN Marianne Faithfull
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mochaspal (report)
Lyric corrections:
refrain:
"worm wind" should be "warm wind"
last lines: "little nursery rhymes/She'd memorised/In her daddy's easy chair"
2nd verse:
Last lines:
"Or run naked through the shady stream/Screaming all the way"
3rd verse:
"And she bowed and curtsied to the man
Who reached up and offered her his hand
And led her down to the long white car
That waited past the crowd."
MF's diction in that last verse is pretty hard to figure out, but that's what she sings. The implication is that the "car" is taking her to the mental hospital, which she mistakes for her lover's sports car taking her to Paris.
The song was written by Shel Silverstein, by the way--the same guy that gave us "The Unicorn" and "The Giving Tree." Who knew?