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Natalie Merchant
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Vain And Careless
(*Robert Graves) [** Disc 2:]
Lady, lovely lady* So careless and so vain Once when a beggar called She gave her child away
The beggar took the baby And wrapped it in a shawl 'Bring him back' the lady said 'Next time you call'
Hard by lived a man So vain and so proud He will walk on stilts to be seen To be seen by the crowd
And up above the chimney pots Tall as a mast All the people ran about Shouting till he passed
“Such a splendid match surely” Neighbours saw it plain “Although she is so careless Although he is so vain”
But the lady played bobcherry Did not see or care As the vain man went by her Aloft in the air
So this gentle-born couple Lived and died apart Water will not mix with oil Nor vain with careless heart
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