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Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl

Certain Songs #1957: Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – “Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl (London 4-27-1985)”

November 15, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Gotta Let This Hen Out!
Year: 1985

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Last week, I pointed out that one of the charms of the songs on Robyn Hitchcock’s I Often Dream of Trains was that you could tell that he was still kind of writing some of them for a band, which is totally borne out by how easily “Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl,” the opening track of his 1985 live album, the extraordinary Gotta Let This Hen Out!, translated to a full band.

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