LP - Chrysalis CHR 1185 (UK, 1978) LP - Phonogram 6307 627 (GER) LP - Takoma 7078 (US) CD - BGO Records BGOCD215 (UK, 1994)	Maddy Prior: Woman in the Wings Woman In The Wings [5:21] Cold Flame [3:41] Mother And Child [1:55] Gutter Geese [3:33] Rollercoaster [3:46] Deep Water [2:19] Long Shadows [3:35] I Told You So [2:34] Rosettes [3:31] Catseyes [2:47] Baggy Pants [2:57] All compositions by Maddy Prior
musicians:	Maddy Prior - vocals Andy Roberts - guitar Barriemore Barlow - drums John Glascock - bass David Palmer - keyboards David Olney- bass Martin Barre - guitar solo Barry Booth - piano Ian Anderson - flute John Halsey - drums Bob Gill - guitar Shona Anderson, Cherry Gillespie - backing vocals
other credits:	Arrangements by David Palmer Leader of Strings: Patrick Halling Leader of Brass: Don Morgan Produced by Ian Anderson, David Palmer     and Robin Black Recorded at Maison Rouge Engineered by Robin Black © 1978 Chrysalis Records Ltd.

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Woman In The Wings She watches anxiously Helpless to protect The girl in the goldfish bowl of light The jigging marionette And the woman in the wings She worries when she sings out of key The dancer as she twirls Oblivious and calm With tossed curls and swirls She will face any storm But the woman in the wings She fidgets with her rings and wrings her hands The puppet on the stage Elusive and calm Buttered and bruised She collapses in the arms Of the woman in the wings Who gently takes the strings, leads her away To a private dressing dressing room She takes the doll apart And packs her away in the wardrobe Til the next show starts Then the woman in the wings Collects up all her things and goes home Cold Flame Clouds crush the setting sun The sky is darkening grey Restless whispering The summer's blown away Bleak deserted arbors That speak of absent friends God forsaken wasteland In time all friendship ends Flame sears the sullen air Scorching my land Yonder swoops the black crow To the wind's command Your body is warm But your brain is cold Leaving me lonely Only emptiness to hold The spine of love is snapped There is nothing to be said But the hollow in my belly Sends an echo through my head I ache to see you To laugh with you again But the voice that once caressed me Is filled with disdain Like a hurricane you came and shook my innocence You woke me in every sense And I ran bemused and excited, curious and delighted But I could not hold you, like the wind you moved on I stood rooted like a fool waiting for the sun And bare trees trace their story Of death of the sky And the savage winter wind Has a tear in its eye Mother And Child "Why do you laugh so loud?" Said the mother to her child "To stop myself from crying" The child replied "Then why do you cry all night" Said the mother to her child "To stop my laughter waking you" The child replied "Where are all your friends from school?" Said the mother to her child "All married off to mortgages" The child replied "Oh why do you not marry?" Said the mother to her child "Because, because, because" The child replied "Why not marry and have children?" Said the mother to her child "You ask too many questions" The child replied "But it's only because I love you" Said the mother to her child "That's why I cannot answer" The child replied Gutter Geese Chorus: Come be merry, be my friend Come let me see the best side of you Come be merry, be my friend Come let me be good friends to you Gay as a goose in the gutter Merry as a mice in malt If we've got a ha'porth of liveliness What care we're below the salt Chorus Happy as a sandboy building Castles in the air Flag waving from the mast In a world without a care Chorus May your castles never crumble Dreams never fade Run to meet the sunshine Don't be drawn to the shade Chorus Deep Water I've been in a long day dream Of scheme and fantasy My thoughts come back in words To mock me My flimsy boat I've set a sailing On dark and stormy seas Midst tempest wailing But while I've been away My friend I have forgotten I have not thought of him Nor letter written My vessels overflowes With leaks sprung in its side And here I'm left a-drifting Lonely in the tide But I must head for harbour To put my ship in order And see my friend again Across the water For it's just been a long day dream Long Shadows When long shadows fall and dwarf the trees at evening When white winter light burnishes the streams Then I will bring you a coat of soft lambs wool To keep your back from the keen northern wind When snow shames the sheep that huddle to the leeward When snowdrops peep from darkness unfurled Then I will bring you boots with fur linings To keep your feet dry as you walk o'er the world When home becomes a prison and snowdrifts lock the door When February Fildyke drenches the moor When black rain freezes and whips at your hand Then I will bring you a carriage with wheels of wind To take you away from this barren land

Rollercoaster Singing for supper round the world I've laughed in the afternoon I have danced after the pubs have closed By the bandstand under the moon I've been drunk and I've been sober I've been happy and I've been sad But there never was a tour Like the one we just had Chorus: And the roller coaster rolls round We all know it's slow going up But just watch how fast it comes down Junk food after mid-night Hotel breakfast no champagne Coffee quiet moments And manic backstage games Flying high on a good night Racing down the aisles With the surge of sound and power Reflecting wicked smiles Chorus And I head an old lady With a ghost of a voice Singing time worn songs Learnt in childhood They are graceful heroic songs In a style out of time Sung in the only way she knows she could And they come up fresh as morning dew But there gems will last To sparkle in the dark A magic lantern of the past Chorus I Told You So You said it would be romantic That moonlighting was the thing Eloping in a ten year old van Fixed with string And after all the packing Secrecy and fuss We never got past Watford And we had to come home by bus Early to bed and off to work next day My parents never even noticed We'd been away Chorus: But don't say I didn't warn you I told you so You were too stubborn to listen I said you'd come unstuck I said you'd come unglued You wouldn't listen to reason A registry office marriage I said was a mistake Your mother laughed the whole time And your brother cut the cake I wanted priest and church A proper white wedding And a sober best man Might not have lost the ring Honeymoon in Norfolk You went fishing all the time In Majorca at least We might have caught some sunshine Chorus A home of our own You turned do-it-yourself I told you'd better be off To leave it to somebody else You did the plumbing Now the cistern's upside down The hot water's cold And the cold water's brown Then there was the other thing You even got that wrong Here we are with seven kids And we only wanted one Chorus Rosettes Rosettes are pinned on the wardrobe Certificates hang by the door It's horses and horses and horses again That's all she seems to live for Then comes the day She'll put them away Hide herself secretly In a diary with a lock and a key She's galloping, galloping over the plain The young girls are galloping, galloping again, Holding their horses and reigning them back Handling stallions with bridle and tack It'll help them to handle the men in their lives Horses will teach them to ride Horses will teach them to ride Four legs are sold for four wheels No more Sunday afternoon chills Instead of outside in the cold and the damp She's indoors finding new thrills And she knows what it meant By a three day event And life is one long hunter trial And she'll challenge it all with a smile She's galloping, galloping over the plain The young girls are galloping, galloping again, Horses for courses they're spurring them on Gentling geldings to ride to the hounds It'll help them to handle the men in their lives Horses will teach them to ride Horses will teach them to ride Galloping, galloping, galloping, ... Catseyes Chorus: Lead heavenly catseye light Wind through lane and street It may be many a day Ere I come to the one I seek Neon beads that thread the night Reveal the road that dips from sight In the smooth sweep of a main road A sane road Not by a drunken toad And it leads me to my love Chorus Now he is a world away His passions they have changed He is but a young lad A bonny lad And his laughter makes me sad For to me he's estranged Chorus Baggy Pants Chorus: I love to see you shuffle In your baggy pants I love I love to dance I could love you honey I could be yours for life I could love you honey If you didn't have a wife Chorus The way that you roll me And call me your pet Ooo the way I love it When you stroke my neck Chorus The way you wear your hat Way down over your eyes Makes me believe that may be You could be telling lies Chorus If you are the man That I've been waiting for I'll wait some more

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