Name: Oh, Won't You Be My Daisy B?
Duration: P00H03M56S
Description: [A modern day gentleman becomes obsessed with The Great Gatsby novel and looks for his own Daisy Buchanan...]

Oh, Won't You Be My Daisy B?

from Jimi Cagney Experience by Jimi Cagney Experience

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price

about

[A modern day gentleman becomes obsessed with The Great Gatsby novel and looks for his own Daisy Buchanan...]

lyrics

OH, WON'T YOU BE MY DAISY B?

Oh won’t you be my Daisy B?

I want a girl — a girl with Jazz-age morals
On this slender, riotous isle
And I want parties — I want decadent plans
East Egg living, loose and lithe

I want a girl — with splendid wedding pearls
So costly that they seem a crime
But I’d like those pearls — oh so neatly wrapped
On somebody else’s dime

Oh won’t you be my Daisy B?

I want the worthless whirl — of the Persian Room
Aristocratic accusations fly
I want to skim, not read, glossy magazines
I want that irresistible smile

Oh won’t you be my Daisy B?

But she wants a man
Who’s just stepped out of an advert
She’ll never say, “I love you”
Instead a secret code
Where she’ll just praise
His classic cool
And his European style
And she’ll get lost
Once she dives in
To that irresistible smile

I want the world to blink - at our gaudy lives
I want to be envied and loathed
I want to be washed out — in Long Island Sound
On this barnyard shallow coast

Oh won’t you be my Daisy B?

credits

from Jimi Cagney Experience, released June 1, 2014
Words & Music: Neal Davies

license

about

Jimi Cagney Experience Montclair, New Jersey

All words, music and instruments written, sung and played by Neal. Apologies for the singing...

contact / help

Contact Jimi Cagney Experience

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Jimi Cagney Experience, you may also like:

Tokyo Bay/Crying Inside
by Nick Lowe

The first new release from Nick Lowe in 5 years includes two originals and two rollicking covers. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 6, 2018
go to album
The Convincer (20th Anniversary Edition)
by Nick Lowe

Released in 2001, “The Convincer” is a gentle gem in the Nick Lowe catalog; an anniversary edition provides opportunity for rediscovery. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 20, 2021
go to album
Slow Century
by I Was A King

Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub produced this lush and hooky collection of pop songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 29, 2019
go to album
Casual Feelings
by Hurry

A big, bright, sweet single from Philadelphia's Hurry, sugary vocal melody playing perfectly against starstruck guitars. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 1, 2016
go to album
Fall Into Me EP
by Social Union

Dark and gothy synthpop from a New Zealand duo. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 7, 2022
go to album
Screaming Brittle Siren (Remastered)
by Michael Knott

Revisit a cult classic from the ’90s, a searing journey into darkness set to slashing riffs and sawing strings. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 30, 2023
go to album
Chelsea's Chasin' Dragons E.P.
by Strung Gurus

Featuring Social Distortion’s Dennis Danell in his final recordings, Strung Gurus combine rootsy grit with soulful vocals from Mike Knott. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 21, 2019
go to album