The Asking Tree: A Robyn Hitchcock Catalog

Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl Releases Gigs Lyrics

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Author: Robyn Hitchcock

According to our records, Robyn has played this song 120 times, most recently at Randy Now's Man Cave on October 09, 2021. He first performed it at BBC Radio 1 - Saturday Live on September 15, 1984, 37 years earlier.

Releases

Title	Artist	Label	Type	Year
I Often Dream of Trains	Robyn Hitchcock	Midnight Music	Album	1984
Gotta Let This Hen Out!	Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians	Midnight Music	Album	1985
A Soft Boy No More	Robyn Hitchcock	Blue Lake Records	Bootleg	1988
Stand Back, Dennis!	Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians		Bootleg	1994
I Wanna Go Backwards	Robyn Hitchcock	Yep Roc Records	Album	2007
Sex, Food, Death... and Tarantulas	Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3	Yep Roc Records	EP	2007
Luminous Groove	Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians	Yep Roc Records	Album	2008
I Often Dream of Trains in New York	Robyn Hitchcock	Yep Roc Records	Album	2009

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Gigs

Venue	Billed As	City	State	Country	Date
BBC Radio 1 - Saturday Live	Robyn Hitchcock	London	England	UK	09/15/1984
Hope & Anchor	"Robyn Hitchcock & Chums" (First Egyptians gig)	London	England	UK	09/29/1984
Dingwalls	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	London	England	UK	11/17/1984
The Bell	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	London	England	UK	12/17/1984
Onkel Pö	Robyn Hitchcock	Hamburg		Germany	02/17/1985
Dingwalls	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	London	England	UK	03/15/1985
Institute of Contemporary Arts	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	London	England	UK	03/23/1985
Ronnie Scott's	Robyn Hitchcock	London	England	UK	04/21/1985
Marquee	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	London	England	UK	04/27/1985
Clarendon Hotel	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	London	England	UK	05/17/1985

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Lyrics

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could wreck myself in the shower
Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could wreck myself in the shower

Been on my own so long
I can't tell left from wrong
Bloody red bats squelching offal
Foaming mutilations in the kiss of death

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could wreck myself in the shower
Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could wreck myself in the shower

Been on my own all night
I can't tell left from right
Baby come back, give me fever
Cauterize this passion with a blood red kiss

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could wreck myself in the shower
Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could ____/stab myself in the shower
Sometimes I wish I was a
So I could

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Don't look so embarrassed, it's a family trait   16a

Sometimes I   23a