Big Parade

Lovely girl, won't you stay

Won't you stay, stay with me

All my life I was blind

I was blind, now I see

Lovely girl, won't you stay

Won't you stay, stay with me

All my life I was blind

I was blind, now I see

Fleet of black

Fleet of black limousines

Oh, tinted machines

Here comes the cavalcade

With the armored cars

Armored cars like Berettas

Flags on antennas

Designed to keep me safe, keep me safe

And oh my my, oh hey hey

Here he comes, the candidate

Blue eyed boy, United States

Vote for him, the candidate

Diamonds cut

Diamonds cut for the karats

Plaster of Paris

The floats fill up the streets

And the beauty queens

Beauty queens with the white gloves

All sick from the night clubs

They wave with pageantry, pageantry

And oh my my, oh hey hey

Here it comes, the big parade

Marching bands and barricades

Make way for the big parade

Ooh, oh, oh

Canvas covered

Canvas covered in resin

The violent men

Who can dance the blood ballet

And the bookies say

Bookies say it's the third round

Oh, when Louie will go down

If he don't there's hell to pay and hell to raise

And oh my my, oh hey hey

Here he comes, the welterweight

Take a dive, for goodness sake

Or say goodbye, to the welterweight

Catholic priest

Catholic priest in a crisis

Torn between romance and Jesus

Who will win the civil war

And he says I'm in love

I'm in love with a woman

Yeah, this is my confession, I'm leaving, I can't be a priest anymore

Anymore

And oh my my, oh hey hey

There he goes, the man of faith

Left the church for a fiancée

Let him love, a man of faith

Ooh, oh,  oh

TV cameras

TV cameras and stage hands

American Bandstands

Electric guitar

And he's singin' songs

He's singin' songs for the lonely

Well, the girls with the room key

They know all his words by heart

By heart and they all sing

Lovely girl, won't you stay

Won't you stay, stay with me

All my life I was blind

I was blind, now I see

Lovely girl, won't you stay

Won't you stay, stay with me

All my life I was blind

I was blind, now I see

Lovely girl, won't you stay

Ooh, oh,  oh

Oh my my, oh hey hey

Here she comes, by saving grace

Burn the car and save the plates

She's arrived, my saving grace