Dory Previn Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign lyrics

You know the Hollywood sign
That stands in the Hollywood hills
I don't think the Christ of the Andes
Ever blessed so many ills

The Hollywood sign seems to smile
Like it's constantly saying cheese
I doubt if the statue of liberty
Ever welcomed more refugees

Give me your poor
Your tired, your pimps
You carhops, your cowboys
Your midgets, your chimps

Give me your freaks
Give me your flunkies
Your starlets, your whores
Give me your junkies

Mary, Cecilia Brown
Rode to town on a Malibu bus
She climbed to the top

Of the Hollywood sign and with the
Smallest possible fuss
She jumped off the letter 'H'

'Cause she did not become a star
She died in less than a minute and a half

She looked a bit like Hedy Lamar

Sometimes I have this dream
When the time comes for me to go
I will hang myself from the Hollywood sign
From the second or third letter 'O'

When Mary, Cecilia jumped
She finally made the grade
Her name was in the obituary column
Of both the daily trades

I hope the Hollywood sign
Cries for the town, it touches
The lady of Lourdes in her grotto
Saw fewer cripples and crutches

Give me your poor, your maladjusted
Your sick and your beat, your sad
And your busted, give me your has-beens
Give me your twisted, your loners
Your losers, give me your black-listed

You know the Hollywood sign
Witness to our confusion
A symbol of dreams turns out to be
A sign of disillusion