Melanie Safka, Bill, rhymes with Kafka. Had the voice of a 4 year old girl. Sang gooey renditions of songs like Ruby Tuesday. I think she actually wrote this song, but could be wrong. She was almost singlehandedly responsible for a brief period of childlike dumbing down of reasonably intelligent young women in the late 60's, early 70's. Sang about roller skates and keys, a.a. milne poems, candles in the wind. One of the more depressing memories of that period, along with the bombing of Hanoi.
yours, Peter T.