With your hair so white you could light up the night 

Burning out like a shooting star 

From the stage to The Squeeze, from T.V. to striptease 

I loved you in the back of my car 

Nobody's gonna tell you what to do 

Nobody's gonna mess around with you 

You'll never give up the fight, not Carol White 



[Chorus]

Cathy come home, where have you been, it's been so long since you went away 

From monochrome to the silver screen, the Battersea Bardot, that's what they say 



With that smile in your eyes you could tell me no lies 

Play it hard, take the smooth with the rough 

Just a pearl in world full of users of girls 

One jump ahead for a while, not long enough 

Nobody's gonna tell you what to do 

Nobody's gonna mess around with you 

You'll never give up the fight, not Carol White