《The Magdalene Laundries》歌词

歌曲： The Magdalene Laundries

歌手： The Chieftains

时长： 04:57

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The Magdalene Laundries (from Tears of Stone) - The Chieftains Joni Mitchell[00:00:00]

I was an unmarried girl[00:00:42]

I'd just turned twenty-seven[00:00:47]

When they sent me to the sisters[00:00:51]

For the way men looked at me[00:00:55]

Branded as a jezebel[00:01:00]

I knew I was not bound for Heaven[00:01:03]

I'd be cast in shame[00:01:08]

Into the Magdalene laundries[00:01:10]

Most girls come here pregnant[00:01:24]

Some by their own fathers[00:01:28]

Bridget got that belly[00:01:33]

By her parish priest[00:01:36]

We're trying to get things white as snow[00:01:42]

All of us woe-begotten-daughters[00:01:45]

In the streaming stains[00:01:49]

Of the Magdalene laundries[00:01:51]

Prostitutes and destitutes[00:02:05]

And temptresses like me[00:02:09]

Fallen women[00:02:14]

Sentenced into dreamless drudgery[00:02:16]

Why do they call this heartless place[00:02:23]

Our Lady of Charity[00:02:26]

Oh charity[00:02:32]

These bloodless brides of Jesus[00:02:41]

If they had just once glimpsed their groom[00:02:44]

Then they'd know and they'd drop the stones[00:02:48]

Concealed behind their rosaries[00:02:53]

They wilt the grass they walk upon[00:02:59]

They leech the light out of a room[00:03:02]

They'd like to drive us down the drain[00:03:07]

At the Magdalene laundries[00:03:10]

Peg O'Connell died today[00:03:23]

She was a cheeky girl[00:03:27]

A flirt[00:03:28]

They just stuffed her in a hole[00:03:29]

Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring[00:03:32]

One day I'm going to die here too[00:03:41]

And they'll plant me in the dirt[00:03:44]

Like some lame bulb[00:03:50]

That never blooms come any spring[00:03:52]

Not any spring[00:03:58]

No not any spring[00:04:09]

No not any spring[00:04:13]

No not any spring[00:04:18]

No not any spring[00:04:22]

No not any spring[00:04:27]

Not any spring[00:04:31]

No not any spring[00:04:32]

Not any spring[00:04:35]

No not any spring[00:04:36]

Not any spring[00:04:40]

No not any spring[00:04:41]

Not any spring[00:04:45]