The Magdalene Laundries-The Chieftains/Joni Mitchell

[ti:The Magdalene Laundries] [ar:The Chieftains] [al:Tears Of Stone] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Magdalene Laundries - The Chieftains/Joni Mitchell (琼尼·米契儿) [00:43.07]I was an unmarried girl [00:45.00] [00:47.31]I'd just turned twenty-seven [00:49.38] [00:51.66]When they sent me to the sisters [00:54.32] [00:55.60]For the way men looked at me [00:57.55] [01:01.35]Branded as a Jezebel [01:03.29] [01:03.87]I knew I was not bound for Heaven [01:07.38] [01:08.97]I'd be cast in shame [01:11.01]Into the Magdalene laundries [01:15.73] [01:24.55]Most girls come here pregnant [01:26.80] [01:29.05]Some by their own fathers [01:31.17] [01:34.22]Bridget got that belly [01:35.68] [01:37.04]By her parish priest [01:38.66] [01:42.82]We're trying to get things white as snow [01:45.62]All of us woe-begotten-daughters [01:50.49]In the steaming stains [01:52.59]Of the Magdalene laundries [01:57.27] [02:05.84]Prostitutes and destitutes [02:07.82] [02:09.97]And temptresses like me-- [02:12.47] [02:14.75]Fallen women-- [02:16.19] [02:17.13]Sentenced into dreamless drudgery [02:20.55] [02:23.82]Why do they call this heartless place [02:27.03]Our Lady of Charity [02:28.73] [02:32.41]Oh charity [02:33.47] [02:42.14]These bloodless brides of Jesus [02:44.55]If they had just once glimpsed their groom [02:48.25] [02:49.17]Then they'd know and they'd drop the stones [02:53.68]Concealed behind their rosaries [02:55.82] [03:00.41]They wilt the grass they walk upon [03:02.72] [03:03.30]They leech the light out of a room [03:06.01] [03:07.88]They'd like to drive us down the drain [03:10.54]At the Magdalene laundries [03:15.54] [03:23.76]Peg O'Connell died today [03:25.74] [03:27.72]She was a cheeky girl [03:29.16]A flirt [03:30.10]They just stuffed her in a hole [03:31.95] [03:33.08]Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring [03:37.44] [03:42.03]One day I'm going to die here too [03:44.24] [03:45.84]And they'll plant me in the dirt [03:47.48] [03:50.95]Like some lame bulb [03:52.48] [03:53.11]That never blooms come any spring [03:57.36] [03:59.28]Not any spring [04:01.56] [04:03.30]No not any spring [04:14.06] [04:14.72]Not any spring