Diamonds And Gold - Fairport Convention

Beautiful dreamer lays in her bed

Wonderful visions go round in her head

Her father has told her the stories of old

Of princes and ladies and diamonds and gold

Lets take a photograph, pictures don’t lie

Her long hair so golden, the blue of her eye

She taunts and she teases the boys in her school

They don’t understand, they don’t know her rules

Soon she’ll be leaving to get on a train

With mirror and makeup, for fortun and fame

Lets take a photograph, picturs don’t lie

Clutching her suitcase, she waves us goodbye

He comes from the shadows, with a gleam in his eye

And a golden medallion your money can’t buy

He takes her to Soho and he takes her up West

He fills her with lines, he’s rehearsed all the best

Now I’ll give you diamonds and I’ll give you gold

You’ll live the stories your father has told

So he gives her the diamonds that she sniffs from a spoon

And he leaves her on satin in some darkened room