The Magdalene Laundries-The Chieftains/Joni Mitchell

[ti:The Magdalene Laundries (from Tears of Stone)] [ar:The Chieftains/Joni Mitchell] [al:The Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Magdalene Laundries (from Tears of Stone) - The Chieftains (酋长乐队)/Joni Mitchell (琼妮·米切尔) [00:42.58]I was an unmarried girl [00:44.58] [00:47.01]I'd just turned twenty-seven [00:48.94] [00:51.20]When they sent me to the sisters [00:53.87] [00:55.20]For the way men looked at me [00:57.22] [01:00.59]Branded as a jezebel [01:03.31]I knew I was not bound for Heaven [01:07.42] [01:08.39]I'd be cast in shame [01:10.46]Into the Magdalene laundries [01:15.42] [01:24.13]Most girls come here pregnant [01:26.37] [01:28.70]Some by their own fathers [01:30.91] [01:33.23]Bridget got that belly [01:35.20] [01:36.40]By her parish priest [01:38.55] [01:42.40]We're trying to get things white as snow [01:45.16]All of us woe-begotten-daughters [01:49.42] [01:49.94]In the streaming stains [01:51.95]Of the Magdalene laundries [01:56.80] [02:05.30]Prostitutes and destitutes [02:07.39] [02:09.69]And temptresses like me [02:11.97] [02:14.48]Fallen women [02:15.69] [02:16.82]Sentenced into dreamless drudgery [02:19.69] [02:23.28]Why do they call this heartless place [02:26.58]Our Lady of Charity [02:28.43] [02:32.42]Oh charity [02:33.52] [02:41.86]These bloodless brides of Jesus [02:44.14]If they had just once glimpsed their groom [02:47.99] [02:48.51]Then they'd know and they'd drop the stones [02:53.09]Concealed behind their rosaries [02:56.43] [02:59.78]They wilt the grass they walk upon [03:02.73]They leech the light out of a room [03:05.80] [03:07.56]They'd like to drive us down the drain [03:10.03]At the Magdalene laundries [03:14.65] [03:23.04]Peg O'Connell died today [03:25.20] [03:27.48]She was a cheeky girl [03:28.68]A flirt [03:29.80]They just stuffed her in a hole [03:31.77] [03:32.64]Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring [03:37.33] [03:41.65]One day I'm going to die here too [03:44.08] [03:44.71]And they'll plant me in the dirt [03:46.96] [03:50.61]Like some lame bulb [03:52.75]That never blooms come any spring [03:56.91] [03:58.96]Not any spring [04:00.40] [04:09.21]No not any spring [04:12.97] [04:13.98]No not any spring [04:17.31] [04:18.15]No not any spring [04:22.14] [04:22.95]No not any spring [04:27.12] [04:27.76]No not any spring [04:31.00]Not any spring [04:32.37]No not any spring [04:35.95]Not any spring [04:36.93]No not any spring [04:40.52]Not any spring [04:41.39]No not any spring [04:45.09]Not any spring