Malvina
Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems
On the Rim of the World
Notes: words and music
by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1973 Schroder Music Company, renewed 2001.
She inches along on the rim of the world,
Always about to go over,
How she can manage I never will know,
To get from one day to the other.
Scrounging a buck or a bed
Or the share of a roof for her head,
This nobody's child, this precarious girl,
Who lives on the rim of the world.
She looks like a princess in somebody's rags,
She dreams of a world without danger,
Climbing the stairs to a room of her own
With someone who isn't a stranger.
But now she eats what she can,
And accepts what there is for a man,
This nobody's child, this precarious girl,
Who lives on the rim of the world.
She inches along on the rim of the world,
Always about to go over,
How she can manage I never will know,
To get from one day to the other.
Scrounging a buck or a bed
Or the share of a roof for her head,
This nobody's child, this precarious girl,
Who lives on the rim of the world.
Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music
to this song appears:
---- The Malvina Reynolds Songbook
Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed:
---- Held Over
---- Ear to the Ground
Recordings by other artists on which this song
is performed:
---- Rosalie Sorrels: Be Careful There's a Baby in the House (Green
Linnet Records GLCD 2100, 1991)
---- Rosalie Sorrels: No Closing Chord; The Songs of Malvina Reynolds
(Red House Records RHR CD 143, 2000)
---- Jane Voss and Hoyle Osborne: Pullin' Through (Green Linnet
SIF 1044, 1983)