PRETTY GIRL WHY
As sung by Buffalo Springfield on "Last Time Around" (1968)

1. Like the ghost of someone dear, she comes to haunt me in my sleep.
Still I'm able to sincerely give her heart away for keeps.

CHORUS: Pretty girl, why?
Pretty girl, why not love me?
Pretty girl, why?
Pretty girl, why?

2. Then she leaves me twice as lonely as I was but yesterday,
Keeping such a hold upon my thoughts, so near yet far away.

3. The minstrel boy has gone to war now burdened with his father's sword.
Still she doesn't see how she can give him peace amidst the horde.


[Also recorded by The Kennedys on "Songs of the Open Road" (2006).]