Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign-Dory Previn

[ti:Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign] [ar:Dory Previn] [al:In Search Of Mythical Kings (The UA Years)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign - Dory Previn [00:09.14]You know the hollywood sign [00:11.60] [00:13.10]That stands in the hollywood hills [00:15.53] [00:17.04]I don't think the christ of the andes [00:19.62] [00:21.38]Ever blessed so many ills [00:23.71] [00:27.54]The hollywood sign seems to smile [00:30.43] [00:31.14]Like it's constantly saying cheese [00:34.67] [00:35.94]I doubt if the statue of liberty [00:38.91] [00:40.02]Ever welcomed more refugees [00:42.46] [00:46.31]Give me your poor [00:47.55] [00:48.33]Your tired your pimps [00:49.71] [00:50.43]You carhops your cowboys [00:51.91] [00:52.55]Your midgets your chimps [00:54.02] [00:54.69]Give me your freaks [00:56.57]Your whores your harlots [00:58.02] [00:58.81]Your flunkies your junkies [01:00.35] [01:01.88]Give me your starlets [01:03.67] [01:07.24]Mary cecilia brown [01:09.07] [01:10.69]Rode to town on a malibu bus [01:13.09] [01:15.15]She climbed to the top of the hollywood sign [01:18.34] [01:18.94]And with the smallest possible fuss [01:21.57] [01:23.42]She jumped off the letter h [01:25.90] [01:27.22]Cause she did not become a star [01:29.89] [01:31.62]She died in less than a minute and a half [01:35.38]She looked a bit like hedy lamarr [01:37.70] [01:39.96]Sometimes i have this dream [01:42.02] [01:43.45]When the time comes for me to go [01:46.07] [01:47.48]I will climb that hill and i'll hang myself [01:50.85] [01:51.71]From the second or third letter o [01:54.43] [01:56.25]When mary cecilia jumped [01:58.78] [02:00.17]She finally made the grade [02:02.61] [02:04.17]Her name was in the obituary column [02:07.37] [02:08.10]Of both the daily trades [02:10.44] [02:12.38]I hope the hollywood sign [02:14.73] [02:16.64]Cries for the town it touches [02:19.55] [02:20.75]The lady of lourdes in her grotto [02:23.77] [02:24.85]Saw fewer cripples and crutches [02:27.15] [02:29.69]Give me your poor [02:31.02]Your maladjusted [02:31.54] [02:33.08]Your sick and your beat [02:34.95]And your sad and your busted [02:36.77] [02:37.30]Give me your has-beens [02:39.42]Give me your twisted [02:41.40]Your loners your losers [02:42.87] [02:44.69]Give me your black-listed [02:46.12] [03:22.02]You know the hollywood sign [03:24.24] [03:25.98]The witness to our confusion [03:28.34] [03:30.10]A symbol of dreams turns out to be [03:33.07] [03:34.04]A sign [03:34.56] [03:39.88]Of disillusion