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Lolitology in Song & Worse
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EDITOR's Comment. NABOKV-L thanks Dale Garrard for the the item below.
From: "Garrard, Dale" <garrardd@mailhost.sd02.k12.id.us>
To Whom It May Concern:
I recently was directed to forward the following to you by Jeff
Edmunds, Editor of ZEMBLA at
http: //www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm
I thought that you might be interested in the following. Enjoy if you like:
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There is a compact disc released in 1996 by a punk band called
"Headshake"on an Independent Record label (Laughing Buddha Records)
that features a song entitled "Delores Haze". The band has a web
site, but unfortunately no lyric sheet. Although most of the record
is college-rock, this particular song comes off as a slinky blues --
sounding thing. I have taken the liberty of transcribing the lyrics
for you:
I met annabel in a private hell
in a kingdom by the sea;
three taps on the toungue, an oh-so young
child bride that would never be
dead in bed before the years end
a little ghost behind my eyes
I woke up and I found you again
you were thirteen and I was thirty-nine
take a doll to pieces, throw its head away
will the chorus miss her voice
the broken life of a movie-queen
stillborn child never had a choice
blinded by love, I never needed to shove;
no your mommy should have looked both ways.
a long way from home and I've got you alone,
and I'm your daddy now, anyway.
don't cry Dolly, don't cry Dolly
I'll take you under my wing
I'll set you on my knee.
white widower, do the senses make sense?
dare I trust my own hypnotic eye?
so sick to see you run away,
into a script that I could not write
revenge was near when I saw the mirror
Que'ed up to play my part.
put me in jail for killing myself,
and there I died of a broken heart
but don't cry Dolly, don't cry Dolly
I'll take you under my wing
I'll set you on my knee
I'll sleep on your grave
lost in the haze
I'll set you on my knee
so don't cry, Dolly
From: "Garrard, Dale" <garrardd@mailhost.sd02.k12.id.us>
To Whom It May Concern:
I recently was directed to forward the following to you by Jeff
Edmunds, Editor of ZEMBLA at
http: //www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm
I thought that you might be interested in the following. Enjoy if you like:
---------------------------------------------
There is a compact disc released in 1996 by a punk band called
"Headshake"on an Independent Record label (Laughing Buddha Records)
that features a song entitled "Delores Haze". The band has a web
site, but unfortunately no lyric sheet. Although most of the record
is college-rock, this particular song comes off as a slinky blues --
sounding thing. I have taken the liberty of transcribing the lyrics
for you:
I met annabel in a private hell
in a kingdom by the sea;
three taps on the toungue, an oh-so young
child bride that would never be
dead in bed before the years end
a little ghost behind my eyes
I woke up and I found you again
you were thirteen and I was thirty-nine
take a doll to pieces, throw its head away
will the chorus miss her voice
the broken life of a movie-queen
stillborn child never had a choice
blinded by love, I never needed to shove;
no your mommy should have looked both ways.
a long way from home and I've got you alone,
and I'm your daddy now, anyway.
don't cry Dolly, don't cry Dolly
I'll take you under my wing
I'll set you on my knee.
white widower, do the senses make sense?
dare I trust my own hypnotic eye?
so sick to see you run away,
into a script that I could not write
revenge was near when I saw the mirror
Que'ed up to play my part.
put me in jail for killing myself,
and there I died of a broken heart
but don't cry Dolly, don't cry Dolly
I'll take you under my wing
I'll set you on my knee
I'll sleep on your grave
lost in the haze
I'll set you on my knee
so don't cry, Dolly