"rosie won't you please come home" (ray davies)

(fotografia de garry winogrand, "los angeles" (1964), retirada daqui).


"Rosie won’t you please come home?
Mama don’t know where you’ve been.
Rosie won’t you please come home?
Your room’s clean and no one’s in it.

Oh my rosie, how I miss you,
You are all the world to me.
Take a look and see if you like it,
If you like it please come back.

Rosie won’t you please come home?
Since you’ve joined the upper classes,
You don’t know us anymore.
Live and let your troubles pass.

Rosie, rosie, will you write and tell me,
If you don’t want to come back?
I would sacrifice all I have
To have a happy home once more.

Rosie won’t you please come home?
Two long years have passed away.
Since you tried to change your life,
Christmas wasn’t quite the same.

Rosie, rosie, got any answers?
You are miles across the sea,
And I’ll bake a cake if you tell me
You are on the first plane home.

Rosie won’t you please come home?
Mama don’t know where you’ve been.
Rosie won’t you please come home?
Your room’s clean and no one’s in it.

Oh my rosie, how I miss you,
You are all the world to me.
Take a look and see if you like it,
If you like it please come back.

Oh rosie, will you please come back?" (1)

the kinks


(1) retirado do disco dos kinks, face to face (1966) e daqui.