《Fred Partington Is Daughter》是Del Amitri演唱的歌曲，收錄在《Waking Hours》專輯中。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Fred Partington Is Daughter
- 所屬專輯：Waking Hours
- 歌曲原唱：Del Amitri
- 歌曲語言：英語
歌曲歌詞
I was sitting in this five star
Place going nowhere fast
When she caught my attention
Through the bottom of my glass
She was a waitress in the hotel
Above this smoky bar
She got up at dawn for breakfast
And worked on 'til it got dark
And at six o'clock when her shift was up
She'd drink the night away
Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day
Well she told me where she came
From was a petty kind of town
How her parents became born-agains after
Her brother got knocked down
And how she found the magazines
In the boot of daddy's car
And he told her he was weak sometimes
Just like how all gentlemen are
And in summer she'd work in his shop
And then cry the night away
Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day
So she left her home
And family one cloudy afternoon
And she came here with her girlfriend
Who had found them both a room
And everyday they'd wake up early
And go looking for a wage
In high-heels and makeup
They would lie about their age
With her first job as a barmaid
She's just dream her shift away
Well wouldn't you
If you served gentlemen all day
Gentlemen all day
And one day by the dole office
A car window rolled down
And a gentleman asked for directions
To her old home town
And it transpired he knew her family
And he owned a string of bars
So he offered her a job
If she would kiss him in his car
So it was that she accepted
His advance of one week's pay
Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day
Gentlemen all day
And as she told me all these tales
She picked a scab around her wrist
That she confessed it was self-inflicted
With a whisky glass like this
Then she game her name and number to me
I did not give mine
She said maybe I should call her
For some fun some time
And the funniest thing was
That name stuck in my head
And eight months later it was
In a headline that I read
They had pulled her out the river
In that same black dress
And she lay there quite the lady
For the gentlemen of the press
And her picture in the paper looked
So small and far away
