Mary Cbrown And The Hollywood Sign Lyrics - Mythical Kings & Iguanas/reflections In A Mud Puddle - Dory Previn

You know the hollywood sign 

That stands in the hollywood hills 

I don't think the christ of the andes 

Ever blessed so many ills 

The hollywood sign seems to smile 

Like it's constantly saying "cheese" 

I doubt if the statue of liberty 

Ever welcomed more refugees 

Give me your poor 

Your tired your pimps 

You carhops your cowboys 

Your midgets your chimps 

Give me your freaks 

Your whores your harlots 

Your flunkies your junkies 

Give me your starlets 

Mary cecilia brown 

Rode to town on a malibu bus 

She climbed to the top 

Of the hollywood sign 

And with the smallest possible fuss 

She jumped off the letter "h" 

'cause she did not become a star 

She died in less than a minute and a half 

She looked a bit like hedy lamarr 

Sometimes i have this dream 

When the time comes for me to go 

I will climb that hill 

And i'll hang myself 

From the second or third letter "o" 

When mary cecilia jumped 

She finally made the grade 

Her name was in the obituary column 

Of both the daily trades 

I hope the hollywood sign 

Cries for the town it touches 

The lady of lourdes in her grotto 

Saw fewer cripples and crutches 

Give me your poor 

Your maladjusted 

Your sick and your beat 

And your sad and your busted 

Give me your has-beens 

Give me your twisted 

Your loners your losers 

Give me your black-listed 

You know the hollywood sign 

The witness to our confusion 

A symbol of dreams 

Turns out to be 

A sign 

Of disillusion.