Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

The blue girls that bake in the sun

Skin falls in flakes from each one

Like leaves from autumn trees

They float upon the breeze

Chorus

These girls you have loved

Are slowly decaying, ah

Drying out in the sun

Before your eyes

Wild stares in your face

They seem to accuse you

Oh, what have you done

To earn their surprise?

The flesh underneath candy pink

Quite a strange affair one might think

They gasp and moan for air

Beached fish on your lawn-chair

These girls you have loved

Are slowly decaying, ah

Drying out in the sun

Before your eyes

Wild stares in your face

They seem to accuse you

Oh, what have you done

To earn their surprise?

Fragments left at the end of the day

A pile of blue that is soon swept away

Goodbye, blue girls, goodbye

Would it be too much to cry?

These girls you have loved

Are slowly decaying, ah

Drying out in the sun

Before your eyes

Wild stares in your face

They seem to accuse you

Oh, what have you done

To earn their surprise?