veronica

costello, elvis

is it all in that pretty little head of yours?

what goes on in that place in the dark?

well i used to know a girl and i would have

sworn that her name was veronica

well she used to have a carefree mind of her

own and a delicate look in her eye

these days i'm afraid she's not even sure if her

name is veronica

do you suppose

that waiting hands on eyes

veronica has gone to hide?

and all the time she laughs at those who shout

her name and steal her clothes

veronica

veronica

did the days drag by? did the favours wane?

did he roam down the town all the time?

will you wake from your dream

with a wolf at

the door

reaching out for veronica

well it was all of sixty-five years ago

when the world was the street where she lived

and a young man sailed on a ship in the sea

with a picture of veronica

on the empress of india"