Laura Nyro - Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp on Lyrkit

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Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp

Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp

(album: Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat - 1970)

Market in the cool white morning
Merchants sell as ladies buy
Milk, tobacco, soap and matches
Sweep the floor while the dishes dry
Spring whispered in her ear
Like soft Mediterranean wailing

Sleepy woman by the window
Dreaming in the morning air
Of the man who takes her sweetness
By a Chinese lamp upstairs
The steam of China tea
You could hear the woman sing
In the soft flames of spring

Spring has swept the scarlet side streets
Winds caress, undress, invite
Upstairs by a China lamp
They softly talk in the cool spring night

La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la na
Na na na la la

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