The same melody was used for Rebeca (Rebecca is the original).
Albert Hammond (writer, recording artist): I was on tour at the time with, I think, The Association, and one of the cities was St. Louis. And after the show they took us to the Playboy Club, you know, with all these Playboy bunnies. And this one just stuck to me, this one called Rebecca. She wasn't very bright, but she was beautiful. And so when I got back, I said "Mike, I met this girl, it was unbelievable, I spent the night with her and the next day..." and so on. And then Mike wrote a lyrics based on it. He did a great job, because you can see Rebecca in there. (Albert on the telephone with Reto, Copyright ?2002 by Reto)
Get you, brushing your hair with the wind
Riding your bike up on Mulholland Drive
Oh, I got a five-minute rush from you in your faded blue jeans
How many years is it you've been alive?
Oh, I'll take a guess, Rebecca, could it be eighteen, nineteen or so?
Ooh, Rebecca, will I ever know?
No way, where would I fit in your life?
What would you do with a man without change
Too strange and too poor to be trusted, rusted a couple of times
Shaken a bit by the years on the road
And the women I've known? Rebecca, you'd have liked the name I gave to you
Ooh, Rebecca, if you only knew
Go home
To your father's friends
Straight sons
To your mother's friends
Sweet ones
to those families
Well-to-do and so well-established
And one day you might wake up to a shock, girl
What has it come to this sensible life
The wife of a fool? Rebecca, reading magazines in a chic salon
Ooh, Rebecca. Where's Rebecca gone?
