wee_ginga_yin
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Frida Kahlo visits the Taybridge Bar a song by Scottish songwriter Michael Marra
It has all the element of a folk tale. Drunken husband, abused wife who appears
as a ghost in the Taybridge Bar in Scotland, which is a waiting room for those
who can't get into heaven cos the pearly gates are rusted shut.
We were all flooded with a scarlet light
Came through the window with the rain outside
It all went quiet and a vision appeared
With a rose in her hair and a ring in her ear
And she says "Buenos Dias boys, this looks like the place
Make my re-entry to the human race
Here I am and here I'll stay
'Til it's hasta la vista and I'm on my way"
And Vince said she was a woman to whom life had been cruel
And she lived with a fat man of the naive school
He liked his beer and he put it about
But she truly loved him 'til the lights went out
Then she made her way up to the pearly gates
She saw Saint Peter, he was pumping weights
He said "Hitch a lift upon this falling star
Make your way down to the Tay Bridge Bar"
There'll be no more lies, no more tears
No more listening through the fat man's ears
There'll be no more tears and no more lies
No more looking through the fat man's eyes
She said she'd never been so happy in a long, long time
Her mind was relaxed and her body felt fine
She said "put on Perdido, tonight's the night
I wanna dance with Jimmy Howey in the pale moonlight
There'll be no more lies, no more tears
No more listening through the fat man's ears
There'll be no more tears and no more lies
No more looking through the fat man's eyes
We were all flooded with a scarlet light
It has all the element of a folk tale. Drunken husband, abused wife who appears
as a ghost in the Taybridge Bar in Scotland, which is a waiting room for those
who can't get into heaven cos the pearly gates are rusted shut.
We were all flooded with a scarlet light
Came through the window with the rain outside
It all went quiet and a vision appeared
With a rose in her hair and a ring in her ear
And she says "Buenos Dias boys, this looks like the place
Make my re-entry to the human race
Here I am and here I'll stay
'Til it's hasta la vista and I'm on my way"
And Vince said she was a woman to whom life had been cruel
And she lived with a fat man of the naive school
He liked his beer and he put it about
But she truly loved him 'til the lights went out
Then she made her way up to the pearly gates
She saw Saint Peter, he was pumping weights
He said "Hitch a lift upon this falling star
Make your way down to the Tay Bridge Bar"
There'll be no more lies, no more tears
No more listening through the fat man's ears
There'll be no more tears and no more lies
No more looking through the fat man's eyes
She said she'd never been so happy in a long, long time
Her mind was relaxed and her body felt fine
She said "put on Perdido, tonight's the night
I wanna dance with Jimmy Howey in the pale moonlight
There'll be no more lies, no more tears
No more listening through the fat man's ears
There'll be no more tears and no more lies
No more looking through the fat man's eyes
We were all flooded with a scarlet light
