Look At The Pretty Girls!

Around 1974 time, when ABBA was winning Eurovision with 'Waterloo', I tried my hand at writing a song for that competition and came up with 'Don't Rock The Boat.'

In 1991, I tried again and came up with 'Look At The Pretty Girls.'

The 2024 version is featured above.

"What is this world but a world of care? 
Ah, pity poor everyman. 
Everyone minds their own affair 
But never many offer a helping hand.

What is this life but a life of trial, 
Where paradise appears an impossible thing? 
But come the sun and a young girl's smile 
And you're seventeen again with a world to win!

Look at the pretty girl, proud to be a woman,
Easing down the street with her head held high.
Child of the sun with her seventh sense gunning
For a man with a passion to satisfy!

Lovers want love, others want laughter,
Some confess a fondness for the South of France.
Mother wants a Prince and a happy ever after,
Daughter wants a Gondola and wandering hands.

Drowning, waving, heady hopes a-raising,
Who's the lady wants to know your name?
You may feel a fool but you gotta be brave
And go say 'hi' or you'll die of shame.

Look at the pretty girl, proud to be a woman,
Easing down the street with her head held high.
Child of the sun with her seventh sense gunning
For a man with a passion to satisfy!

"I love you, love me, 'do you really?
Is it only for the Summer or forever, Amen?'
Well, I don't know but it's fun thing I feel
And I'll be here next year if we're still friends'."

Look at the pretty girl, proud to be a woman,
Easing down the street with her head held high.
Child of the sun with her seventh sense gunning
For a man with a passion to satisfy!

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small;
Unwon young woman in the Summer sun,
You're the wonder of the all!

Look at the pretty girl, proud to be a woman,
Easing down the street with her head held high.
Child of the sun with her seventh sense gunning
For a man with a passion to satisfy!

Look at the pretty girls, proud to be a woman,
Easing down the street with the Summertime come.
Children of the sun with their seventh sense gunning
For a man with a passion to match their own!"

Changed a line in the last verse - This is better...

Look at the pretty girl, proud to be a woman,
The Summer is here and she's in the zone.
Child of the sun with her seventh sense gunning
For a man with a passion to match her own!

 

Written in 1990 and recorded in 1991, the original audio can be heard below.

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