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Vain and Careless - Natalie Merchant

Lady lovely lady

Careless and gay

Once when a beggar called

She gave her child away

The beggar took the baby

Wrapped it in a shawl

'Bring her back ' the lady said

'Next time you call '

Hard by lived a vain man

So vain and so proud

He would walk on stilts

To be seen by the crowd

Up above the chimney pots

Tall as a mast

And all the people ran about

Shouting till he passed

'A splendid match surely '

Neighbours saw it plain

'Although she is so careless

Although he is so vain '

But the lady played bobcherry

Did not see or care

As the vain man went by her

Aloft in the air

This gentle-born couple

Lived and died apart

Water will not mix with oil

Nor vain with careless heart