Song Description
The story of a single mother who gets down on her luck when circumstances conspire against her. She takes to the bottle and the welfare people take her kids. She turns to the street for a living.
| Song Length |
2:57 |
Genre |
Country - Alternative, Folk - Country |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Troubled, Poignant |
Subject |
Failure, Poverty |
| Similar Artists |
Neil Young, Tom Waits |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
She sits on the stairs of a rehab in nowhere
With crows? feet under her eyes
And a tattoo that reads unscarred and unbroken
And a death mask she?s trying on for size
She doesn?t hear the jazz singer down on the corner
Her hands hold her Grandmother?s string of pearls
And they?re all different sizes she finally realises
It?s a lonely life for a working girl
Chorus:
Loving her was easier yesterday
Now they?ve gone and taken
Rosalita?s children away
Rosalita, what you doing down town?
They cam round in the morning at quarter to nine while
She was watching hangover TV
And they took all her children ?cos she had not looked after them
And now they live, the other side of the city
And she knows it?s connected with the credit cheque
And welfare claims and social whirls
And she did not do wrong she just did not do right
And it?s a lonely life for a working girl
Chorus:
Loving her was easier yesterday
Now they?ve gone and taken
Rosalita?s children away
Rosalita, what you doing down town?