[ti:Nina And Her Very Long Hair] [ar:The Heart Strings] [al:Try Fly Blue Sky] [00:00.00]The Heart Strings - Nina And Her Very Long Hair [00:03.00] [00:09.81]I have a tale, but not a tail [00:13.74]Like felius domesticum [00:16.20] [00:18.20]It's of a girl, a real girl [00:21.99]I'm calling by her real name [00:25.06] [00:26.54]And thus began [00:33.25]A summer camp sonnet [00:37.53]She saw a boy who would soon be [00:40.56]A bee in her teenage bonnet [00:43.60]Nina and her very long hair [00:48.00]Held a torch that got her nowhere [00:51.60]She hit him with a thunderbolt smile [00:55.27]Every thing she had she threw [00:58.38]Every dress and every shoe [01:00.52]Nina and her very long hair [01:04.66]Held a torch that got her nowhere [01:08.56]As hard as she tried [01:11.84]He never looked twice [01:13.87]He never did see the light, [01:16.36]And end the plight of Nina [01:18.16] [01:25.97]Sometimes a film, comes over me, [01:29.84]Like a cold cup of tea [01:32.29]And I forget, what I was set [01:38.27]To snag and bag, grab and seize [01:41.08] [01:42.51]At seventeen [01:49.13]She was still reeling [01:53.58]She went to camp [01:54.97]With a comb and a tent [01:56.98]And that same old feeling [01:59.51]Nina and her very long hair [02:03.75]Held a torch that got her nowhere [02:07.69]She hit him with a thunderbolt smile [02:12.37]Every thing she had she threw [02:14.41]Every dress and every shoe [02:16.47]Nina and her very long hair [02:20.52]Held a torch that got her nowhere [02:24.56]As hard as she tried [02:27.71]He never looked twice [02:29.76]He never did see the light, [02:32.09]And end the plight of Nina [02:34.05] [02:42.01]And so she snipped, [02:43.64]She cut and she clipped [02:45.68]Enough to thatch a cottage roof [02:50.34]And once she'd preened, [02:52.92]She glowed and she gleamed [02:54.97]Off she set to make him swoon [02:57.88] [02:59.20]She was the girl with very short hair, [03:02.40]That got her nowhere [03:05.39] [03:12.34]End