Song Lyric Sunday – Dark Lady

The theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday is fortune telling/predicting the future. I’m not choosing the obvious song this week. Instead, I’m choosing a song sung by Cher, who sang quite a bit of gypsy music. This song was one of her best. It was written and composed by John Durrill.

Dark Lady (1974)

Cher

The fortune queen of New Orleans,
Was brushing her cat in her black limousine
On the backseat were scratches from
The marks of men her fortune she had won
Couldn’t see through the tinted glass,
She said “home James” and he hit the gas
I followed her to some darkened room,
She took my money, she said “I’ll be with you soon”
Dark lady laughed and danced and lit the candles one by one
Danced to her gypsy music till her brew was done
Dark lady played back magic till the clock struck on the twelve
She told me more about me than I knew myself
She dealt two cards, a queen and a three
And mumbled some words that were so strange to me
Then she turned up a two-eyed jack,
My eyes saw red but the card still stayed black
She said the man you love is secretly true