Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) 1972

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Lyrics : ..Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)

[Verse 1]
There's a port on a western bay
And it serves a hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time away
And talk about their homes
And there's a girl in this harbor town
And she works layin' whiskey down
They say, "Brandy, fetch another round"
She serves them whiskey and wine

[Chorus]
The sailors say, "Brandy, you're a fine girl" (You're a fine girl)
What a good wife you would be (Such a fine girl)
Yeah, your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea

[Verse 2]
Brandy wears a braided chain
Made of finest silver from the north of Spain
A locket that bears the name
Of a man that Brandy loved
He came on a summer's day
Bringin' gifts from far away
But he made it clear he couldn't stay
No harbor was his home

[Chorus]
The sailor said, "Brandy, you're a fine girl" (You're a fine girl)
What a good wife you would be (Such a fine girl)
But my life, my love, and my lady is the sea

[Bridge]
Yeah, Brandy used to watch his eyes when he told his sailor's story
She could feel the ocean fall and rise, she saw its raging glory
But he had always told the truth, Lord, he was an honest man
And Brandy does her best to understand

[Verse 3]
At night when the bars close down
Brandy walks through a silent town
And loves a man who's not around
She still can hear him say

[Chours]
She hears him say, "Brandy, you're a fine girl" (You're a fine girl)
What a good wife you would be (Such a fine girl)
But my life, my love, and my lady is the sea
It is, it is, yes, it is, it is
"Brandy, you're a fine girl" (You're a fine girl)
What a good wife you would be (Such a fine girl)
But my life, my love, and my lady is the sea
It is, it is, yes, it is, it is

Elliot Lurie-Guitars, vocals
Larry Gonsky-Keyboards, vocals
Peter Sweval-Bass, vocals, cowbell
Jeff Grob-Drum kit
Larry Fallon-Horns arrangements

Brandy, a barmaid in a busy seaport harbor town which serves "a hundred ships a day." Though lonely sailors flirt with her, she pines for one who is long since gone because he claimed his life, his love, and his lady, was “the sea.”



There is nothing as beautiful as a natural woman, there is nothing so free as the open sea.. sail on, sail on, sailor!

The urban myth that Brandy was based on Mary Ellis (1750-1828), a spinster in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has been refuted by co-vocalist Elliot Lurie himself.

dr. π (pi)

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