Honest Lullaby-Joan Baez

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[00:00.00]Honest Lullaby - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹)
[00:07.08]Early early in the game
[00:09.83]I taught myself to sing and play
[00:13.26]And use a little trickery
[00:16.02]On kids who never favored me
[00:19.51]Those were years of crinoline slips
[00:22.63]And cotton skirts and swinging hips
[00:25.75]And dangerously painted lips
[00:29.06]And stars of stage and screen
[00:32.87]Pedal pushers ankle socks
[00:35.74]Padded bras and campus jocks
[00:38.86]Who hid their vernal equinox
[00:41.92]In pairs of faded jeans
[00:45.22]And slept at home resentfully
[00:48.71]Coveting their dreams
[00:55.27]And often have I wondered
[00:58.01]How the years and I survived
[01:03.27]I had a mother who sang to me
[01:06.46]An honest lullaby
[01:14.75]Yellow brown and black and white
[01:17.69]Our Father bless us all tonight
[01:20.87]I bowed my head at the football games
[01:24.19]And closed the prayer in Jesus' name
[01:27.50]Lusting after football heroes
[01:31.18]Tough Pachuco little Neroes
[01:34.17]Forfeiting my A's for zeroes
[01:37.67]Futures unforeseen
[01:40.80]Spending all my energy
[01:43.55]In keeping my virginity
[01:46.55]And living in a fantasy
[01:49.92]In love with Jimmy Dean
[01:53.41]If you will be my king Jimmy Jimmy
[01:56.92]I will be your queen
[02:03.22]And often have I wondered
[02:05.92]How the years and I survived
[02:11.10]I had a mother who sang to me
[02:14.16]An honest lullaby
[02:18.47]Yeah yeah
[02:32.02]I travelled all around the world
[02:35.33]And knew more than the other girls
[02:38.57]Of foreign languages and schools
[02:41.82]Paris Rome and Istanbul
[02:44.94]But those things never worked for me
[02:48.37]The town was much too small you see
[02:51.49]And people have a way of being
[02:54.98]Even smaller yet
[02:58.04]But all the same though life is hard
[03:01.23]And no one promised me a garden
[03:04.35]Of roses so I did okay
[03:07.72]I took what I could get
[03:10.90]And did the things that I might do
[03:14.22]For those less fortunate
[03:20.96]And often have I wondered
[03:23.51]How the years and I survived
[03:28.76]I had a mother who sang to me
[03:31.82]An honest lullaby
[03:35.86]Yeah yeah
[03:39.61]Now look at you you must be growing
[03:43.04]A quarter of an inch a day
[03:46.09]You've already lived near half the years
[03:49.47]You'll be when you go away
[03:52.59]With your teddy bears and alligators
[03:56.17]Enterprise communicators
[03:59.69]All the tiny aviators head into the sky
[04:05.62]And while the others play with you
[04:08.92]I hope to find a way with you
[04:12.46]And sometimes spend a day with you
[04:15.27]I'll catch you as you fly
[04:18.76]Or if I'm worth a mother's salt
[04:22.01]I'll wave as you go by
[04:28.51]And if you should ever wonder
[04:31.50]How the years and you'll survive
[04:36.56]Honey you've got a mother who sings to you
[04:40.18]Dances on the strings for you
[04:43.24]Opens her heart and brings to you
[04:46.36]An honest lullaby
[04:50.66]Yesh yeah yeah