Seems so long ago, Nancy    (video)

 

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1. It seems so long ago,          Nancy was alone,

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    looking at the Late Late Show through a       semi-precious stone.

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    In the House of honesty, her father was on trial,

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    in the House of mystery, there was no one at all,

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    there was no one at all.

 

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2. It seems so long ago,          none of us were strong,

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    Nancy wore green stockings, and she slept with everyone.

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    She never said she’d wait for us, although she was alone,

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    I think she fell in love for us in nineteen sixty one,

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    in nineteen       sixty one.

 

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3. It seems so long ago,           Nancy was alone,

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    a forty five beside her head,        an open       telephone.

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    We told her she was beautiful, we told her she was free,

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    but none of us would meet her in the House of mystery,

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    the House of        mystery.

 

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4. And now you look around you,            see her everywhere,

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    many use her body,         many comb her hair.

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    In the hollow of the night, when you are cold and numb,

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    you hear her talking freely then, she’s happy that you’ve come,

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    she’s happy        that you’ve come.

 

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(orig. = capo 2nd; live = no capo)    (Leonard Cohen)