Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Jenny, artist - Steve Taylor. Album song Meltdown, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.1987
Record label: Sparrow
Song language: English
Jenny |
On a Saturday night all the girls run free |
Singing «bury me not on the lone prairie» |
But where do you go when you finish broken-hearted? |
--back to the dust where you started |
Jenny cut her teeth in a mid-west shack |
As a shantytown girl on the wrong end of the tracks |
Her mama taught her everything she’d need to get along |
And her Sunday School teacher taught her right and wrong |
Raised to be respectable but born to be poor |
It was all she’d ever known but she figured there was more |
When she came of age Jenny made herself a vow |
«I'm gonna get out and I don’t care how» |
It appeared every Autumn on the courthouse lawn |
And the leaves never fell till the carnival was gone |
Michael was a barker for an arcade ride |
With a smooth-talk tongue and a wandering eye |
«Get your tickets here for the Halls O’Mirrors maze |
If you can’t get out I know I couple ways» |
He caught Jenny’s eye but her thoughts looked down |
All she wanted was a ticket going out of that town |
Oh how I wanna bury you |
Bury you and run away--done away |
How I wanna bury your memory |
Why don’t you let me be? |
Michael stole a kiss first then he whispered at last |
«you're a little old-fashioned so forget about your past |
These Bible belt folks think living is a sin |
So they all start dying from the day they’re born again» |
And there atop the Ferris wheel the colours were a blur |
The morning said he loved her but she wasn’t really sure |
He made her promise not to leave until he came to get her |
She promised him but she should have known better |
She cried… She cried-- |
Oh how I wanna bury you |
Bury you and run away--done away |
How I wanna bury your memory |
Why don’t you let me be? |
Oh, Jenny… |
On a train--stowaway |
Jesus loves you still and your mama wants you home |
But oh bridges burn |
When you carry your shame and you think you can’t return |
Oh how I wanna bury you |
Bury you and run away--done away |
How I wanna bury your memory |
When they finally found her body on a cold dog day |
It was in a cattle car buried in the hay |
A note in the pocket of her calico dress |
Said «I'm guilty as sin but I can’t confess» |
Once you know the truth you can hide it on a shelf |
But unless you bring it down you can’t live with yourself |
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother |
Jenny had a pistol in the other |
On a Saturday night all the girls run free |
Singing «bury me not on the lone prairie» |
But where do you go when you finish broken-hearted? |
Back to the dust where you started |