Ballad Of Lucy Jordan by viking and sons of Jordan

Marianne Faithfull cover by viking and sons of Jordan “The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan“ (originally by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show) The morning sun touched lightly on the eyes of Lucy Jordan In a white suburban bedroom in a white suburban town As she lay there ’neath the covers dreaming of a thousand lovers ’Til the world turned to orange and the room went spinning round At the age of thirty-seven she realized she’d never Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there softly singing Little nursery rhymes she’d memorized in her daddy’s easy chair Her husband, he was off to work and the kids were off to school And there were, oh, so many ways for her to spend the day She could clean the house for hours or rearrange the flowers Or run naked through the shady street screaming all the way At the age of thirty-seven she realized she’d never Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair So she let the phone keep ringing as