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Anastasia in a Commoner's Clothes

from Tall Tales by Josh Brooks

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She walks into the room, throws her coat to a man in the corner, takes a look at the crowd and wraps her arms tight 'round her purse. Gives the finger to two girls making fun of her 5-and-Dime necklace, smooths the wrinkles from the dress that she stole from the thrift store downtown. She sits at the head of a table for one in the corner. She orders a bowl of beet soup and she flashes her rings. The people all stare, but she doesn't care- she ignores them, and she rocks back and forth as the man on the stage starts to sing.

CHORUS: And wherever she goes she's a lady. It's not her fault that nobody knows that she is Princess Anastasia in a commoner's clothes.

There's a bowl filled with water laced with lavender petals beside her. She takes a long sip and she sighs, and she orders one more. Then she takes out her lipstick and she fixes her kisser, and she hums 'Moscow Nights' as the soft candle light starts to sputter and flicker. CHORUS

She dreams of the day when her father the Czar owned a fleet of white horses, back when he was in charge of it all. But the peasants took power and the palaces fell. Now she can't see the Volga from her two-star motel, and the past is a little girl stuck in a well where no one will ever find her...

Now the dinner is done and the guests have all left for the evening, save for one who is sitting alone with her head in her hands. She sits and admires the lights on the old candelabra, and the waiters all laugh but it's just 'cuz they can't understand CHORUS

Still she dreams of the day when her father the Czar owned a fleet of white horses, back when he was in charge of it all. But the peasants are dead and the palaces gone. Now she can't see the Volga from across her front lawn and the little girl long ago stopped hanging on, and now no one will ever find her...

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from Tall Tales, released December 18, 2014

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Josh Brooks Vermont

Vermont singer, songwriter & guitarist Josh Brooks has been called “a storyteller and message-bearer whose word-smithery and hints of darkness keep you listening to the end” (Seven Days), and ’Vermont’s Johnny Cash’ (Northeast Performer). Fans of Steve Earle, Guy Clark and John Prine will all find something to like in Josh Brooks. Visit www.joshbrooksmusic.com for more info. ... more

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