Story Behind The Song

I met a young girl at a pizza joint in hollywood who tried to sell herself to me for sex. I , instead sat down with her and after I learned her story i wrote the song

Song Description

A young girl who was a victim of incest, leaves her home in Redlands, California and comes to Hollywood were she loses herself in the dark side of life.She is ultimately found dead of an overdose in a car. Her mother laments her death back home with a lock of her hair and sings a nursery rythyme

Lyrics

Redlands

Now both her Daddy's came from Redlands
Her second Daddy was a drinking fool
He bought her a pony when she was young for a favor
And one day she ran away from school

And she came out here to Hollywood
And walked the boulevard for a while
Changed her name and got a butterfly tattoo
She began workin' her sense of style
CHORUS
She was hard to hurt
And slow to heal
A stubborn philly
Pullin'up on a broken wheel



There's nothing in the books or the literature
That says that you have to live a certain way(she said)
But you wonder what would have happened
If she had only decided to pray


I found her red mustang convertible
The engine runnin' and the the radio on
sittin' with two bottles - a smile on her face
Her her blowin' in the wind but her soul had passed on


CHORUS
Moma's got a lock of her hair
In a picture frame back home
That has her on that pony at the county fair
Before she was alone

Now Moma says she can her that pony runnin'
Out there in the REDLANDS from time to time
Lights her morning cigarette and looks out from the back porch
And she sings her baby girl a nursery rhyme...

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