Singer Songwriter Lori Lieberman loved Bill Carpenter's poem "Girl Writing a Leter" so much that she converted it into a song. It appeared as a track on her 1995 CD "Home of Whispers" (sample). She has done a re-orchestrated version which will be appearing on her new CD "Lori Lieberman featuring the Matangi Quartet, The Girl and the Cat," to be released in September 2019. |
Girl Writing a Letter
Lori Lieberman musical adaptation of Bill Carpenter's poem
A thief drives his car to a museum His knife, it is shiny and black The guard says, "I'm sorry we're closed now Tomorrow you'll have to come back" "But I haven't got all evening And he finds the Dutch Masters And he slices the canvas on one edge And she doesn't hear him until it's too late |
And the Gardner Museum is empty Only her and the man she just met But she feels like she's known him forever And it's a feeling she'll never forget So when he hands her the knife And he gives her the wheel and he says, And he's found his Dutch Master |