A cheerful ditty based on the book 'Bad Blood' (Richard M. Levine), about a teenage girl who convinces the boyfriend to kill her parents. A true story, set in lovely 1975 Marin County.
On the album 'Pigs in a Blanket'.
Lyrics
VERSE 1: My name is Charles Riley, my girlfriend's named Marlene.
I was 20 when we met, she just turned 16.
She taught me more about love and pain
than I thought there was to learn
There’s hell to pay for what we did
but I’m gladly gonna burn
CHORUS:
Marlene, they said you was bad blood
but to me, it felt just like true love
When you took my hand and told me what to do
I said Marlene, I'll do anything for you.
VERSE 2:
I was just a fat boy who never had a girl
You came to feed my hunger if you could rule my world
Said you used black magic but the choice was all my own
Now that I have tasted love I can face the end alone
(CHORUS and interlude)
VERSE 3:
Strange what I was willing to do to please the girl I love
She carved her name across my back still it was not enough
She said her folks would break us up, she wished that they were dead
I asked her what she really meant ‘cause I'd do what she said
(CHORUS)