Dorothy - Judy Collins

Living in Kansas

A life alone

She never married

She’s hardly known

She stares out the window far away

Looking for another windy day

Dorothy was a fool to leave

She could have stayed

She held it right in her hands

She had it made

She could have had it all for keeps

She was afraid

She could have stayed

It seems like only yesterday

But forty years have up and slipped away

Since a lovely black haired girl

Was taken from her one and only world

Dorothy was a fool to leave

She could have stayed

She held it right in her hands

She had it made

She could have had it all for keeps

But was afraid

She could have stayed

Same old bluebirds flying high

Over rainbows in the Kansas sky

Why oh why

Oh why

I guess it only serves her right

For trading all that color for black and white

All her sorrow

All because

There ain’t no way to stand Kansas

When you’ve been to Oz

Dorothy was a fool to leave

She could have stayed

She held it right in her hands

She had it made

She could have had it all for keeps

But was afraid

She could have stayed

She could have stayed

She could have stayed