Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign-Dory Previn

[ti:Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign] [ar:Dory Previn] [al:Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign - Dory Previn [00:09.14]You know the hollywood sign [00:11.46] [00:12.85]That stands in the hollywood hills [00:15.65] [00:16.86]I don't think the christ of the andes [00:20.64] [00:21.33]Ever blessed so many ills [00:23.85] [00:27.52]The hollywood sign seems to smile [00:30.46] [00:30.99]Like it's constantly saying "cheese" [00:34.49] [00:35.55]I doubt if the statue of liberty [00:39.08] [00:39.86]Ever welcomed more refugees [00:43.50] [00:46.10]Give me your poor [00:47.53] [00:48.08]Your tired your pimps [00:49.53] [00:50.11]You carhops your cowboys [00:52.30]Your midgets your chimps [00:53.70] [00:54.34]Give me your freaks [00:55.88] [00:56.40]Your whores your harlots [00:58.33]Your flunkies your junkies [01:00.13] [01:01.77]Give me your starlets [01:04.84] [01:06.83]Mary cecilia brown [01:09.16] [01:10.55]Rode to town on a malibu bus [01:13.11] [01:14.93]She climbed to the top [01:16.71]Of the hollywood sign [01:18.64]And with the smallest possible fuss [01:21.33] [01:23.13]She jumped off the letter "h" [01:25.57] [01:26.93]'Cause she did not become a star [01:29.80] [01:31.27]She died in less than a minute and a half [01:34.98]She looked a bit like hedy lamarr [01:37.62] [01:39.66]Sometimes I have this dream [01:42.03] [01:43.09]When the time comes for me to go [01:45.97] [01:47.17]I will climb that hill [01:49.44]And I'll hang myself [01:51.23]From the second or third letter "o" [01:54.13] [01:55.89]When mary cecilia jumped [01:58.11] [01:59.68]She finally made the grade [02:02.08] [02:03.82]Her name was in the obituary column [02:07.60]Of both the daily trades [02:10.14] [02:12.01]I hope the hollywood sign [02:14.33] [02:16.06]Cries for the town it touches [02:19.12] [02:20.40]The lady of lourdes in her grotto [02:23.76] [02:24.55]Saw fewer cripples and crutches [02:27.13] [02:29.25]Give me your poor [02:30.43]Your maladjusted [02:32.49]Your sick and your beat [02:34.12]And your sad and your busted [02:35.96] [02:36.87]Give me your has-beens [02:38.91]Give me your twisted [02:40.87]Your loners your losers [02:42.63] [02:44.14]Give me your black-listed [02:46.91] [03:21.51]You know the hollywood sign [03:23.74] [03:25.25]The witness to our confusion [03:27.84] [03:29.39]A symbol of dreams [03:31.18]Turns out to be [03:32.70] [03:33.28]A sign [03:35.52] [03:39.33]Of disillusion