《Magdalene Laundries》歌词

歌曲： Magdalene Laundries

所属专辑：A Tribute to Joni Mitchell

歌手： Emmylou Harris

时长： 03:42

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Magdalene Laundries - Emmylou Harris (爱美萝·哈里斯)[00:00:00]

I was an unmarried girl[00:00:14]

I'd just turned twenty-seven[00:00:18]

When they sent me to the sisters[00:00:22]

For the way men looked at me[00:00:25]

Branded as a jezebel[00:00:31]

I knew I was not bound for Heaven[00:00:33]

I'd be cast in shame[00:00:37]

Into the Magdalene laundries[00:00:40]

Most girls come here pregnant[00:00:52]

Some by their own fathers[00:00:56]

Bridget got that belly[00:01:01]

By her parish priest[00:01:03]

We're trying to get things white as snow[00:01:08]

All of us woe-begotten daughters[00:01:12]

In the streaming stains[00:01:15]

Of the Magdalene laundries[00:01:18]

Prostitutes and destitutes[00:01:26]

And temptresses like me--[00:01:29]

Fallen women--[00:01:34]

Sentenced into dreamless drudgery[00:01:35]

Why do they call this heartless place[00:01:42]

Our Lady of Charity [00:01:46]

Oh charity [00:01:49]

These bloodless brides of Jesus[00:01:59]

If they had just once glimpsed their groom[00:02:02]

Then they'd know and they'd drop the stones[00:02:05]

Concealed behind their rosaries[00:02:08]

They wilt the grass they walk upon[00:02:16]

They leech the light out of a room[00:02:19]

They'd like to drive us down the drain[00:02:23]

At the Magdalene laundries[00:02:26]

Peg O'Connell died today[00:02:37]

She was a cheeky girl[00:02:40]

A flirt[00:02:42]

They just stuffed her in a hole [00:02:43]

Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring [00:02:45]

One day I'm going to die here too[00:02:54]

And they'll plant me in the dirt[00:02:57]

Like some lame bulb[00:03:01]

That never blooms come any spring[00:03:03]

Oh come any spring[00:03:09]

No not any spring[00:03:17]

Not any spring[00:03:23]