Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign (Live At Carnegie Hall)-Dory Previn

[ti:Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign (Live At Carnegie Hall)] [ar:Dory Previn] [al:Live At Carnegie Hall] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign (Live At Carnegie Hall) - Dory Previn [00:15.23]You know the hollywood sign [00:17.14] [00:18.87]That stands in the hollywood hills [00:20.93] [00:22.43]I don't think the christ of the andes [00:25.30] [00:26.38]Ever blessed so many ills [00:29.42] [00:32.02]The hollywood sign seems to smile [00:34.58] [00:35.34]Like it's constantly saying "cheese" [00:38.30] [00:39.51]I doubt if the statue of liberty [00:41.87] [00:43.39]Ever welcomed more refugees [00:46.60] [00:49.17]Give me your poor [00:51.02]Your tired your pimps [00:52.34] [00:52.90]You carhops your cowboys [00:54.90]Your midgets your chimps [00:56.03] [00:56.57]Give me your stars [00:58.04] [00:58.74]Give me your harlots [01:00.16] [01:00.84]Your loners your losers [01:02.19] [01:03.72]Give me your starlets [01:06.36] [01:08.41]Mary cecilia brown [01:10.68] [01:11.91]Rode to town on a malibu bus [01:14.54] [01:16.15]She climbed to the top [01:18.01]Of the hollywood sign [01:19.27] [01:19.88]And with the smallest possible fuss [01:22.52] [01:24.04]She jumped off the letter "h" [01:26.38] [01:27.77]'Cause she did not become a star [01:30.43] [01:31.91]She died in less than a minute and a half [01:35.72]She looked a bit like hedy lamarr [01:38.23] [01:40.23]Sometimes I have this dream [01:42.27] [01:43.46]When the time comes for me to go [01:46.24] [01:47.26]I will climb that hill [01:49.49]And I'll hang myself [01:51.34]From the second or third letter "o" [01:53.97] [01:55.61]When mary cecilia jumped [01:57.90] [01:59.62]She finally made the grade [02:01.89] [02:03.61]Her name was in the obituary column [02:06.84] [02:07.62]Of both the daily trades [02:10.41] [02:12.15]I hope the hollywood sign [02:13.73] [02:15.21]Cries for the town it touches [02:18.24] [02:19.21]The lady of lourdes in her grotto [02:22.21] [02:23.27]Saw fewer cripples and crutches [02:26.24] [02:27.68]Give me your poor [02:28.56] [02:29.19]Your tired your pimps [02:30.39] [02:31.03]You carhops your cowboys [02:32.47] [02:33.23]Your midgets your chimps [02:34.35] [02:34.93]Give me your has-beens [02:36.87]Give me your twisted [02:38.28] [02:38.85]Your loners your losers [02:40.37] [02:42.27]Give me your black-listed [02:45.10] [03:10.30]You know the hollywood sign [03:12.18] [03:13.60]The witness to our confusion [03:16.32] [03:17.69]A symbol of dreams [03:18.82] [03:19.43]Turns out to be [03:20.74] [03:21.77]A sign [03:22.73] [03:28.59]Of disillusion