Lyrics Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

Intro

Now we move on, we move on a bit in time. Not much, but a

little.

We are now in Paris at the end of the Second World War,

and the allies have come in and liberated Paris and

everyone is having a wonderful time.

It's full of Americans and English and Russians, and

everybody.

And there is a woman who during the war was a nurse, now

she's a prostitute.

I must admit I've always thought there is a connection

between these two.

They both take care of you really, don't they? And she's

plying her trade and cheering up all the soldiers in

Paris.

But there, there was a man she loved, really loved, who's

now dead in a far away grave somewhere.

And sometimes she can't help but think about him, and

then she, she starts to suffer.

And then she turns away and pulls herself together and

gets on with it.

Mon Ami, My Friend.