Elly

Elly wrapped her 19 years in a coat from '41

She had the looks that would make a grown man cry

From the Diamantina River country, she crossed the dry mid-west

From her childhood dreams and sheltered schemes she cut the ties

The commercial man made blunt demands, as they travelled south by east

Elly turned into a woman overnight

The her sat her down in the heart of town

The millionaire's retreat

She gazed up the tall, glassed concrete walls of main street Surfers

Paradise

If the deck's been marked before the deal

You learn to compromise

Get to know the cool hand with dice

Learn to live off losers, cause they make their mistakes twice

Your'e living in high society cos your'e street wise

Just to Survive (who knows what he sings in this little ad lib?)

Just to Survive

With her big blue eyes and centerfold looks, man she stacked them in

All the senators and doctors called her Madam

With her fifteen girls she built a world, A pleasured paradise

On what a man of God would call the wages of sin

Now a wealth woman drinks with diamnd rings, sits 20 storeys high

And gazes out as the sun lifts from the sea

To make it to the top, Elly sacrificed a lot

And found that a seven figure sum, much too high a fee