Gold Dust Lyrics by Sandy Denny

Gold Dust Lyrics

    This is the text on the rendezvous album:

    If your eyes are blue you know the rest
    Champagne if it's very cool
    It's never very formal how you dress
    For oysters by the swimming pool
    Then slip away into the mountainside
    Like the man in the lazy e'
    It's great to have a place where you can hide
    Why you must amazes me

    Chorus
    Golden,
    Where are you?
    Sold on gold dust
    I shuttled all around america
    From new york to los angeles
    Nervous breakdown later, there we were
    From liberty to redwood trees
    A friend of mine, she hitched from east to west
    In time to hear my final song
    It seems to me she tried her very best
    She is a good companion

    (chorus)

    He stores away the moments of her smiles
    As if they were rare butterflies
    Stalks his prey for miles and miles and miles
    Then barters for the merchandise
    When life it drags the likes of me around
    Just when we need some time alone
    You have a simple mansion underground
    Without address or telephone

    (chorus)

    The live version on the attic tracks vol. 3 and on gold dust - live at the royalty is a bit different. the last two lines of verse one are:
    It's nice to have a place where you can hide
    For why you must amazes me

    And the last verse is:
    He stores away the moments of her smiles
    As if they were rare butterflies
    Stalks his prey for miles and miles and miles
    And barters for the merchandise
    As time it drags the likes of me around
    Just when we need some time alone
    You have a private mansion underground
    Without address or telephone

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