Electric Light Orchestra - Nellie Takes Her Bow

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Who thanked the Lord for the clothes that she wore and mended

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Nellie with the big old fashioned eyes

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Who won the heart of a crowd tore apart, took a bow

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Nellie there's a different world backstage


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I see the flood lights burning

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I hear the band play on

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Now Nel---lie takes her bow


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She said she really could not stay

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Nellie she had a brand new play to play

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And so she paints her face and smiles

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And she'll be some one else in a while

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Just another lonely girl who could not face a broken world

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And so she acts out all her dreams

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and wishes that's how it had been

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But when the audience is near

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It seems as though she doesn't seem to care

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Nellie just sent me a line to tell me she was doing fine

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She got the lead and on Brodway

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And now they're digging her today

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And as she turns the final page

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Living some one's life upon the stage

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