The Legend of Loco Chanel (And the Blood Red Dress) - Original West End Cast of Everybody's Talking About Jamie.mp3

[00:01.160]Once in a lifetime
[00:04.335]There will rise a hero
[00:08.395]Who's approaching footsteps
[00:11.698]Will cause the earth to quake
[00:16.376]Once in a lifetime
[00:19.694]They'll baptize a hero
[00:23.820]In the blood she left in her wake
[00:27.505]The legend of Loco Chanelle
[00:40.507]I'll sing a story now of way out West
[00:44.027]Of Madame Loco and the blood red dress
[00:47.500]And of the man who didn't treat her right
[00:51.105]You see that dress, well it started out white
[00:54.631]She was the sweetest thing you'd ever seen
[00:58.240]Raised on a cattle ranch in Southey Green
[01:01.543]She was a beauty queen in '79
[01:05.048]And spent her summers on the Greyhound line
[01:09.990]But she knew that every queen must have a crown
[01:13.423]So she set off to a place called London Town
[01:16.851]Where streets are paved with gold and lit with dreams
[01:20.709]And magpies come to gather all that gleams
[01:24.340]A simple girl, she never traveled far
[01:27.757]But in her heart there burned a superstar
[01:31.385]She'd hit 'em hard and swore she'd give 'em hell
[01:35.327]The legend of
[01:36.881]Loco Chanelle
[01:44.447]She'd not a single friend to count upon
[01:48.372]Until in Camden met a man named John
[01:51.242]He liked her lipstick and he loved her wig
[01:55.449]He told her
[01:56.163]Babydoll I'll make you big
[01:58.850]Stick with me kiddo and the city's yours
[02:02.164]The fame, the fortune, the perpetual applause
[02:06.236]She trusted Johny, so she spent the night
[02:09.662]Who knew a wolf had such a charming bite?
[02:14.474]But Johny was an agent, not a gent
[02:18.066]And he took more than the usual 10 percent
[02:21.636]And though he promised Miss Chanelle the Earth
[02:25.367]She soon discovered what his word was worth
[02:28.751]On opening night the audience was packed
[02:32.240]When she caught him screwing with a younger act
[02:35.734]In flagrante at the Finchley Hotel
[02:39.603]The tragedy of Loco Chanelle
[02:50.982]The seats were sold out to the last reserves
[02:54.393]She said: "I need a drink to calm me nerves"
[02:58.070]Then she saw Johny with his tie askew
[03:01.795]Her look was loaded and her gun was too
[03:05.166]"Here's to you Johny, have a shot to start"
[03:08.560]And then she smiled and shot him through the heart
[03:12.090]Her dress was purest white till Johny bled
[03:15.974]And turned her virgin gown to deepest red
[03:22.884]She strolled onto the stage, a crimson queen
[03:26.211]And killed the crowd by stealing every scene
[03:29.735]And soon her fans were queuing round the block
[03:33.423]To see the diva in the blood red frock
[03:37.184]And that, my dear, is how the star shall rise
[03:40.686]With ruby lips and murder in her eyes
[03:44.139]Till one day to avoid a prison cell
[03:47.584]Miss Loco vanished like a magic spell
[03:51.513]Where she is now, no! I'll never tell
[03:54.757]That's the legend of Loco Chanelle