Nellie Takes Her Bow (2001 Remaster)

Nellie Takes Her Bow (2001 Remaster) - Electric Light Orchestra

Who thanked the Lord

For the clothes that she wore and mended

Nellie

With the big old-fashioned eyes

Who won the heart of a crowd tore apart

Took a bow Nellie There´s a different world backstage

I see the flood lights burning I hear the band play on

Now Nellie takes her bow

She saw she really could not stay Nellie

She had a brand new play to play

And so she paints her face and smiles

And she´ll be someone else in a while

Just a lonely girl

I see the flood lights burning I hear the band play on

Now Nellie takes her bow

Just a lonely girl

Who could not face a broken world

And so she acts on all her dreams

And wishes that´s how it had been

But when the audience is near

It seems as though she doesn't even care

Ah Nellie just sent me a line

To tell me she was doing fine

She got the lead on Broadway

And now they´re digging her today

And so she turns another page

Living someone´s life upon the stage