The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
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1. The morning sun
touched gently on the eyes of Lucy Jordan
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in a white suburban bedroom, in a white
suburban town.
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As she lay there 'neath the covers,
dreaming of a thousand lovers,
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till the world turned to orange, and the
room went spinning round.
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At the age of thirty-seven
she realized she'd never ride
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through Paris in a
sports car, with the warm wind in her hair.
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So she let the phone
keep ringing, as she sat there softly singing,
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the nursery rhymes
she'd memorize in her daddy's easy chair.
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2. Her husband is off
to work and the kids are off to school,
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and there were oh so many ways, for her to
spend a day.
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She could clean the house for hours, or
re-arrange the flowers
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or make it through the shady stream,
screaming all the way. + CHORUS
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3. The evening sun
touched gently on the eyes of Lucy Jordan,
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on the roof top where she climbed, when
all the laughter grew too loud.
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And she bowed and
curtsied to the man who reached to her with his hands,
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and led her down to a long white car that
waited, past the crowd.
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At the age of thirty-seven she knew that
she'd found heaven,
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as
she rode along through Paris, with the warm wind in her hair....
(midi: E...A...B7) (Marianne Faithful)