Next on the Carpenter CD is "Johnny Come Down to Hilo. The singer has only one verse. The recording is badly scratched.

Here's what I hear:

             I once [had a blue]with lots of pins,
             I never thought I could get so thin.


Words in brackets are guesswork and the entire first line is questionable. The first few times I listened I thought the whole verse was

             I once knew a girl who was straight as a pin,
             I never thought she could get so thin.

But after more than a dozen hearings I'm convinced that's wrong.
Anybody else with the CD want to try to decipher?