《The Magdalene Laundries》歌词

[00:00:00] The Magdalene Laundries (from Tears of Stone) - The Chieftains Joni Mitchell

[00:00:42] I was an unmarried girl

[00:00:47] I'd just turned twenty-seven

[00:00:51] When they sent me to the sisters

[00:00:55] For the way men looked at me

[00:01:00] Branded as a jezebel

[00:01:03] I knew I was not bound for Heaven

[00:01:08] I'd be cast in shame

[00:01:10] Into the Magdalene laundries

[00:01:24] Most girls come here pregnant

[00:01:28] Some by their own fathers

[00:01:33] Bridget got that belly

[00:01:36] By her parish priest

[00:01:42] We're trying to get things white as snow

[00:01:45] All of us woe-begotten-daughters

[00:01:49] In the streaming stains

[00:01:51] Of the Magdalene laundries

[00:02:05] Prostitutes and destitutes

[00:02:09] And temptresses like me

[00:02:14] Fallen women

[00:02:16] Sentenced into dreamless drudgery

[00:02:23] Why do they call this heartless place

[00:02:26] Our Lady of Charity

[00:02:32] Oh charity

[00:02:41] These bloodless brides of Jesus

[00:02:44] If they had just once glimpsed their groom

[00:02:48] Then they'd know and they'd drop the stones

[00:02:53] Concealed behind their rosaries

[00:02:59] They wilt the grass they walk upon

[00:03:02] They leech the light out of a room

[00:03:07] They'd like to drive us down the drain

[00:03:10] At the Magdalene laundries

[00:03:23] Peg O'Connell died today

[00:03:27] She was a cheeky girl

[00:03:28] A flirt

[00:03:29] They just stuffed her in a hole

[00:03:32] Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring

[00:03:41] One day I'm going to die here too

[00:03:44] And they'll plant me in the dirt

[00:03:50] Like some lame bulb

[00:03:52] That never blooms come any spring

[00:03:58] Not any spring

[00:04:09] No not any spring

[00:04:13] No not any spring

[00:04:18] No not any spring

[00:04:22] No not any spring

[00:04:27] No not any spring

[00:04:31] Not any spring

[00:04:32] No not any spring

[00:04:35] Not any spring

[00:04:36] No not any spring

[00:04:40] Not any spring

[00:04:41] No not any spring

[00:04:45] Not any spring