Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan 1980

Marianne Faithful - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan 1980

The morning sun touched lightly
on the eyes of lucy jordan
In a white suburban bedroom
in a white suburban town
As she lay there neath the covers
dreaming of a thousand lovers
Till the world turned to orange
and the room went spinning round.

At the age of thirty-seven
she realised shed never
Ride through paris in a sports car
with the warm wind in her hair.
So she let the phone keep ringing
and she sat there softly singing
Little nursery rhymes shed memorised
in her daddys easy chair.

Her husband, hes off to work
and the kids are off to school,
And there are, oh, so many ways
for her to spend the day.
She could clean the house for hours
or rearrange the flowers
Or run naked through the shady street
screaming all the way.

At the age of thirty-seven
she realised shed never
Ride through paris in a sports car
with the warm wind in her hair
So she let the phone keep ringing
as she sat there softly singing
Pretty nursery rhymes shed memorised
in her daddys easy chair.

The evening sun touched gently on
the eyes of lucy jordan
On the roof top where she climbed
when all the laughter grew too loud
And she bowed and curtsied to the man
who reached and offered her his hand,
And he led her down to the long white car
that waited past the crowd.

At the age of thirty-seven
she knew shed found forever
As she rode along through paris
with the warm wind in her hair

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[tarago100]

This is not a rip-off of Hazel O'Connor. Hazel was still a teenage picking grapes in France when Marianne Faithfull first sang this song (1974). Get your facts straight then you won't make a folol of yourelf like you just have done.

[KatDn7]

This song is the reason I found 37 a difficult birthday. 10 years on, and I've realised that it's all in your own hands. There's a time to do the housewifey stuff, and a time after that to find out what you really want to do with your life. I don't recommend the thousand lovers, but other than that, good luck!

[needaman66]

seeing the age...i think maybe she was singing this with herself in mind

[wiske7834]

Don't know much about marianne faithful but I like this song. She is putting so much feeling in to it.

[stezyrezy]

Raw and dirty. that,s why men love her but so do i for putting feeling in what she sings! not the best but she leaves herself in your head! stezyrezy

[flagranti70]

Es ist immer wieder schön solche Musik aus einer Zeit zu hören in der wir noch etwas jünger waren. Da kommt so manche Erinnerung auf. (Ich hatte damals einen Becker Mexiko in meinem Auto).

[tarago100]

I didn't say Marianne Faithful was the first to record the song, but that she first sang it in 1974, which she did because I heard her perform it live in that year. I have my facts straight and therefore have not made a fool of myself. As for what is obviously a typo, let he who is without fault cast the first stone.

[jedplum]

@tarago100 No, this is actually a rip off of Dr Hook and the medicine show, This song, was written by Shel Silverstein and first recorded by Dr Hook in 1975, covered by Marianne Faithfull in 1979, after it was covered in 1976 by Lee Hazlewood

Please, get your facts straight and your spelling correct, so you will not make a fool of yourself like you have just done

[ramses30277]

Super!!! Love the way she sings,great performance of a great artist!

[HWYTXT]

She makes me remember Courtney Love. Maybe she was a kind of her in the 60's.

[lori67ful]

dr hook should be given thier props for giving us such a moving tune

[YZ0007]

I didn't know Marianne Faithfull and ear this song in the movie Cours Privé. I bought the song and saw the movie several times.