Del Amitri – Fred Partingtons Daughter (Guitar)

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I was sittin' in this five star place going nowhere fast

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When she caught my attention through the bottom of my glass

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She was a waitress in the hotel above this smoky bar

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She got up at dawn for breakfast and worked on 'til it got dark

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And at six o'clock when her shift was up she'd drink the night away

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Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day

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Well she told me where she came from was a petty kind of town

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How her parents became born-agains after her brother got knocked down

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And how she found the magazines in the boot of daddy's car

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And he told her he was weak sometimes, just like how all gentlemen are

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And in summer she'd work in his shop and then cry the night away

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Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day

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So she left her home and family one cloudy afternoon

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And she came here with her girlfriend who had found them both a room

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And everyday they'd wake up early and go looking for a wage

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In high-heels and makeup they would lie about their age

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With her first job as a barmaid she's just dream her shift away

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Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day

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And one day by the dole office a car window rolled down

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And a gentleman asked for directions to her old home town

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And it transpired he knew her family and he owned a string of bars

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So he offered her a job if she would kiss him in his car

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So it was that she accepted his advance of one week's pay

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Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day

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And as she told me all these tales she picked a scab around her wrist

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That she confessed it was self-inflicted with a whisky glass like this

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Then she game her name and number to me -- I did not give mine

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She said maybe I should call her for some fun some time

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And the funniest thing was that that name stuck in my head

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And eight months later it was in a headline that I read

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They had pulled her out the river in that same black dress

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And she lay there quite the lady for the gentlemen of the press

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And her picture in the paper looked so small and far away

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Well wouldn't you if you served gentlemen all day