Chris de Burgh

最近(很長很長的最近)，OGS老是喜歡在開車時聽Chris de Burgh，而且把音響開到讓人以為他已經開始耳背的程度。

其實我對Chris de Burgh沒什麼特別的喜好，在他所有的曲子裡我只喜歡「The Lady in Red」和另一首詼諧小品「Patricia the Stripper」(講述一位鮮嫩可口脫衣舞孃的故事)，其餘那些史詩企圖的大曲子我嫌它們太過虛矯濫情，有點華而不實。

也許這是我的偏見，對一個在阿根廷出生，住過馬爾他、奈及利亞、剛果的農莊，最後定居在愛爾蘭某個城堡的英國人來說，寫唱這樣的歌，也只是剛好而已。



Lyrics

Dennis is a menace
With his "Anyone for tennis?"
And he'd beseech me to come keep the score
And Maude said, "Oh Lord, I'm so terribly bored"
I really can't stand it anymore...

I'm going...out to dinner
With a gorgeous singer
To a little place I found
Down by the key

Her name is Patricia
She calls herself delicia
And the reason isn't
Very hard to see

She said, God made her a sinner
Just to keep fat men thinner
As they tumble down in heaps
Before her feet

They hang around in groups
Like battle weary troops
One can often see them
Queue right down the street

You see, Patricia Or Delicia
Not only is a singer
She also removes all her clothing

For Patricia
Is the best stripper in town...

And with a swing of her hips
She started to strip
To tremendous applause
She took off her drawers

And with a lick of her lips
She undid all her clips
And threw it all in the air
And everybody stared

And as the last piece of clothing
Fell to the floor
The police were banging on the door
On a Saturday night
In 1924

Take it away boys...

Well, Patricia was arrested
And everyone detested
The terrible manner in which
she was exposed

Later on in court
where everyone thought
A summer's run in jail
would be proposed..

But the judge said Patricia
Or may I say Delicia
The facts of this case lie before me
(knock, knock, knock)
Case dismissed...
This girl was in her working clothes...

And with a swing of her hips
She started to strip
To tremendous applause
She took off her drawers

And with a lick of her lips
She undid all her clips
Threw it all in the air
And everybody stared

And as the last piece of clothing
Fell to the floor
The police were yelling out for more (more)
On a Saturday night
In 1924