Nina And Her Very Long Hair-The Heart Strings

[ti:Nina And Her Very Long Hair] [ar:The Heart Strings] [al:198924] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.24]I have a tale but not a tail [00:13.67]Like felius domesticum [00:18.54]It's of a girl a real girl [00:22.17]I'm calling by her real name [00:27.13]And thus began [00:33.34]A summer camp sonnet [00:34.89]She saw a boy who would soon be [00:40.10]A bee in her teenage bonnet [00:42.87]Nina and her very long hair [00:45.94]Held a torch that got her nowhere [00:51.76]She hit him with a thunderbolt smile [00:55.97]Every thing she had she threw [00:58.33]Every dress and every shoe [01:00.23]Nina and her very long hair [01:04.49]Held a torch that got her nowhere [01:08.75]As hard as she tried [01:11.90]He never looked twice [01:13.74]He never did see the light [01:16.15]And end the plight of Nina [01:19.15]Sometimes a film comes over me [01:29.65]Like a cold cup of tea [01:34.58]And I forget what I was set [01:38.19]To snag and bag grab and seize [01:45.21]At seventeen [01:45.70]She was still reeling [01:53.53]She went to camp [01:55.19]With a comb and a tent [01:57.02]And that same old feeling [01:58.40]Nina and her very long hair [02:03.74]Held a torch that got her nowhere [02:07.86]She hit him with a thunderbolt smile [02:12.12]Every thing she had she threw [02:14.24]Every dress and every shoe [02:16.25]Nina and her very long hair [02:20.55]Held a torch that got her nowhere [02:24.81]As hard as she tried [02:27.98]He never looked twice [02:29.94]He never did see the light [02:32.19]And end the plight of Nina [02:40.88]And so she snipped [02:43.74]She cut and she clipped [02:45.94]Enough to thatch a cottage roof [02:47.61]And once she'd preened [02:52.16]She glowed and she gleamed [02:54.33]Off she set to make him swoon [02:58.10]She was the girl with very short hair [03:01.86]That got her nowhere [03:04.97] [03:10.07] [03:10.87]