The song The Busy Girl Buys Beauty is performed by Billy Bragg in the album named Back to Basics in the year 1990 .
The busy girl buys beauty
The pretty girl buys style
And the simple girl buys
What she's told to buy
And sees her world
Through the brightly lit eyes
Of the glossy romance of fashion
Where she can learn
Top tips for the gas cook
Successful secrets of a s*xual kind
The daily drill for beautiful hair
And the truth about pain
What was Anna Ford wearing?
What did Angela Rippon say?
What will you do
When you wake up one morning
To find that God's made you plain
In a beautiful persons world?
And all that quick recipes
Have let you down
And you're 20 and a half
And you're not yet engaged
Will you go look for the boy who says
I love you, let's get married and have kids
The busy girl buys beauty
The pretty girl buys style
And the simple girl buys
What she's told to buy
And sees her world
Through the brightly lit eyes
Of the glossy romance of fashion
Where she can learn
Top tips for the gas cook
Successful secrets of a s*xual kind
The daily drill for beautiful hair
In a mail order paradise
Billy Bragg - Back to Basics
- The Milkman Of Human Kindness
- To Have And To Have Not
- Richard
- Lovers Town Revisited
- A New England
- The Man In The Iron Mask
- The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
- It Says Here
- Love Gets Dangerous
- From A Vauxhall Velox
- The Myth Of Trust
- The Saturday Boy
- Island Of No Return
- The Guitar Says Sorry
- Like Soldiers Do
- St. Swithin's Day
- Strange Things Happen
- A Lover Sings
- Between The Wars
- The World Turned Upside Down
- Which Side Are You On