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Thread #88424   Message #1658527
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
31-Jan-06 - 07:27 PM
Thread Name: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
See these earlier threads:

1999: LyrRequest:Where do you go to my Lovely?
1999: Marie Claire'?/Lyric req (includes full lyric, including the "missing" verse mentioned above)
1997: WHERE DO YOU GO TO, MY LOVELY? (Sarstedt) (posted with mishearings, and the rather creepy comment "enjoy" attached. I've always hated that.)

Several parodies, mostly of less interest than the original, are included. Mind you, it was I who posted the full lyric. I still have the LP, come to that. Bought it when it first came out; I was 14 or 15. The album was pretentious, self-important and, ultimately, rather shallow: just right for adolescents, in fact.

Sarstedt's postscript on the sleeve says it all, really (capitals as in the original):

"BOB DYLAN STRAIGHTENED ME OUT. OSCAR BROWN JR GAVE ME THE IMPORTANCE OF A SONG. THE WORLD GIVES ME AMMUNITION AND LOVE GIVES ME A REASON TO CARRY ON. I AM YOUR FRIEND."

Oh well. It was 1969.