Bobby Bare
"The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" lyrics

The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan

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
Till 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
As she sat there softly singing
Pretty nursery rhymes she'd memorized
From 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 down 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 she sat there softly singing
Pretty nursery rhymes she'd memorized
In her Daddy's easy chair

The evening sun touched gently
On the eyes of Lucy Jordan
On the rooftop where she climbed
When all the laughter grew too loud

And she bowed and curtsied to the man
Who reached and offered her his hand
And he led her down to the long white car
That waited past the crowd

At the age of thirty-seven
She'd finally found forever
As she rode along through Paris
With the warm wind in her hair