Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign-Dory Previn

[ti:Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign] [ar:Dory Previn] [al:The Art Of Dory Previn] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign - Dory Previn [00:00.68]You know the hollywood sign [00:03.97] [00:04.99]That stands in the hollywood hills [00:08.93] [00:09.58]I don't think the christ to the andes [00:13.91] [00:14.47]Ever blessed so many ills [00:19.12]The hollywood sign seems to smile [00:22.69] [00:23.34]Like it's constantly saying cheese [00:26.94] [00:28.33]I doubt if the statue of liberty [00:32.61] [00:33.25]Ever welcomed more refugees [00:37.26] [00:37.92]Give me your poor [00:40.00]Your tired your pimps [00:42.26]You carhops your cowboys [00:45.00]Your midgets your chimps [00:46.50] [00:47.21]Give me your freaks [00:48.95] [00:49.56]Give me a flunkies [00:51.76]Your starlets your harlots [00:53.41] [00:55.37]Give me your junkies [01:01.15]Mary cecilia brown [01:03.66] [01:04.84]Rode to town on a malibu bus [01:07.51] [01:09.08]She climbed to the top [01:10.90]Of the hollywood sign [01:12.91]And with the smallest possible fuss [01:15.79] [01:17.42]She jumped off the letter h [01:20.01] [01:21.14]'Cause she did not become a star [01:24.06] [01:25.66]She died in less than a minute and a half [01:29.16]She looked a bit like hedy lamarr [01:32.14] [01:33.87]Sometimes I have this dream [01:36.42] [01:37.50]When the time comes for me to go [01:40.40] [01:41.46]I will climb that hill [01:43.71]And I'll hang myself [01:45.45]From the second or third letter o [01:48.28] [01:50.01]When Mary cecilia jumped [01:52.36] [01:53.93]She finally made the grade [01:57.22] [01:58.02]Her name was in the obituary column [02:02.17]Of both the daily trades [02:05.63] [02:09.05]I hope the hollywood sign [02:11.80] [02:13.20]Cries for the town it touches [02:17.41]The lady of lourdes in her grotto [02:21.91] [02:22.46]Saw fewer cripples and crutches [02:26.61] [02:27.20]Give me your poor [02:28.77]Your maladjusted [02:30.78]Your sick and your beat [02:32.22] [02:33.40]Sad and busted [02:35.69]Give me your has beens [02:37.96]Give me your twisted [02:39.89]Your loners your losers [02:41.95] [02:43.80]Give me your black listed [02:49.03] [02:50.13]You know the hollywood sign [02:53.81]The witness to our confusion [02:58.52]A symbol of dreams [03:00.15] [03:00.69]Turns out to be [03:03.25]A sign [03:06.73]Of disillusion