The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan chords by Marianne Faithfull (Ver. 2)

E                 E7
The morning sun touched gently on
   A       E
the eyes of Lucy Jordan

in a white suburban bedroom
    B          B7
in a white suburban town.
    E             E7
As she lay there 'neath the covers
     A        E
dreaming of a thousand lovers
      B           B7
till the world turned to orange
               E   E7
and the room went spinning round.

    A
At the age of thirty-seven
    E
she realized she'd never ride

through Paris in a sports car
              B
with the worm wind in her hair.

    E             E7
So she let the phone keep ringing
    A         E
as she sat there softly singing
    B
the nursery rhymes she'd memorize
     A      E
in her daddy's easy chair.

              E7
Her husband is off to work
     A        E
and the kids are off to school

and there were oh so many ways
   B          B7
for her to spend a day.

      E            E7
She could clean the house for hours
  A         E
or re-arrange the flowers
  B
or make it through the shady stream
          E
screaming all the way.

    A
At the age of thirty-seven
    E
she realized she'd never ride

through Paris in a sports car
              B
with the worm wind in her hair.

    E             E7
So she let the phone keep ringing
    A         E
as she sat there softly singing
    B
the nursery rhymes she'd memorize
     A      E
in her daddy's easy chair.

                 E7
The evening sun touched gently on
   A       E
the eyes of Lucy Jordan

on the roof top where she climbed
                B   B7
when all the laughter grew too loud.

     E              E7
And she bowed and cursed to the man
    A          E
who reached out ... off to her his hands
   B
and led her down to a long white car
            E  E7
that waited, past the crowd.

    A
At the age of thirty-seven
   E
she knew that she'd found heaven

as she rode along through Paris
              B