The Lady With The Braid

from Beware Of Young Girls: The Songs Of Dory Previn by Kate Dimbleby and Naadia Sheriff

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Possibly Dory's best known song, The Lady With The Braid was on her 1971 album Mythical Kings and Iguanas.
We performed it in 2010 as part of 'I'm A Woman' at the New End Theatre in Hampstead, and it was the incredible audience reaction that partly prompted the show and album. It's one of those songs that people remember where they were the first time they heard it.

lyrics

would you care to stay till sunrise
it's completely your decision
it's just that going home is such a ride
going home is such a ride
going home is such a ride
going home is such a low and lonely ride

would you hang your denim jacket
near the poster by picasso
do you sleep on the left side or the right
would you mind if i leave on the light
would you mind if it isn't too bright
now i need the window open
so if you happen to get chilly
there's this coverlet my cousin hand crocheted
do you mind if the edges are frayed
would you like to unfasten my braid

shall i make you in the morning
as cup of instant coffee
i will sweeten it with honey and with cream
when you sleep
do you have dreams?
you can read the early paper
and i can watch you while you shave
oh god the mirror's cracked
when you leave
will you come back?
you don't have to answer that at all
the bathroom door is just across the hall
you'll find an extra towel on the rack
on the paisley patterned papered wall
there's a comb on the shelf
i papered that wall myself
that wall
myself

would you care to stay till sunrise
it's completely your decision
it's just the night cuts through me like a knife
would you care to stay awhile and save my life?
would you care to stay awhile and save my life?
i don't know what made me say that
i've got this funny sense of humor
you know i could not be downhearted it i tried
it's just that going home is such a ride
going home is such a ride
going home is such a ride
isn't going home is such a low and lonely ride?

credits

from Beware Of Young Girls: The Songs Of Dory Previn, released January 7, 2013
Written by Dory Previn
Vocals - Kate Dimbleby and Naadia Sheriff
Piano - Naadia Sheriff
Recorded and engineered at Porcupine Studios by Nick Taylor
Music and Lyrics © Universal/MCA Music Ltd

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Kate Dimbleby UK

‘life affirming’ Sunday Times Artist of the Week
‘riveting’ Mail on Sunday, Album of the Week
‘fresh, subtle and startling’ The Guardian
‘intriguing, file under one offs’ 4* ‘Arts First Night’
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