Dorothy - Jackie DeShannon

Livin' in Kansas, a life alone

She never married, she’s hardly known

She stares out her window far away

Lookin' for another windy day

Dorothy was a fool to leave

She could have stayed

She held it right in her hand

She had it made

She could have had it all for keeps

But was afraid

She could have stayed

Seems like only yesterday

But forty years have up and slipped away

Since a lovely, black-haired girl

Was taken from her one and only world

Dorothy was a fool to leave

She could have stayed

She held it right in her hand

She had it made

She could have had it all for keeps

But was afraid

She could have stayed

Same ol' bluebirds flyin' high

Over rainbows in the Kansas sky

Why, oh, why

Oh, why?

I guess it only serves her right

For trading all that color for black and white

All her sorrow, all because

There ain’t no way to stand Kansas when you, you’ve been to Oz

Dorothy was a fool to leave

She could have stayed

She held it right in her hand

She had it made

She could have had it all for keeps

But was afraid

She could have stayed

She could have stayed

She could have stayed