Name: With My Daddy In The Attic
Duration: P00H03M31S
Description: We were unsure about including this on the album since it's such a personal song about a real trauma that happened in Dory's own life. Yet typically for Dory, the song somehow gets at a universal emotion. When we performed it live, so many people had their own response to the song that it felt important to include it.

With My Daddy In The Attic

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

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We were unsure about including this on the album since it's such a personal song about a real trauma that happened in Dory's own life. Yet typically for Dory, the song somehow gets at a universal emotion. When we performed it live, so many people had their own response to the song that it felt important to include it.

lyrics

With my
Daddy in the attic
With my
Daddy in the attic
That is where
My being wants to bed
With the
Mattress ticking showing
And the tattered pillow slip
And the pine
Unpainted rafters overhead
With the
Door closed on my mama
And my sibling competition
And my Shirley Temple doll
That truly cries
And my essay on religion
With the pasted paper stare
Proving tangibly
I’d won the second prize
With my
Daddy in the attic
With my
Daddy in the attic
That is where
My dark attraction lies
With his
Madness on the nightstand
Placed beside
His loaded gun
In the terrifying nearness
Of his eyes
With no
Window spying neighbours
And no
Husbands in the future
To intrude
Upon our attic
Past the stair
Where we’ll live on
Peanut butter
Spread across assorted crackers
And he’ll play
His clarinet
When I despair
With my
Daddy in the attic
With my
Daddy in the attic
With my
Daddy in the attic
Passed the stair
Where we’ll live on
Peanut butter
Spread across assorted crackers
And he’ll play
His clarinet
When I despair

Ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba...

With my
Daddy in the attic
With my
Daddy in the attic
With my
Daddy in the attic
Passed the stair
With my
Daddy in the attic
With my
Daddy in the attic
With my
Daddy in the attic
Passed the stair

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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