Dori Previn- Beware of Young Girls

[CBGLuthier]

She wrote this after 25 year-old Mia Farrow was pregnant from the affair she had with Dori Previn's 40 year-old husband. this was after the 20 year-old Mia Farrow had already been married to the 50 year-old Frank Sinatra.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Rest in peace, Dory Previn

"I don't know how he stayed so long," she recalled. "He left me for another woman after I had left him for another reality."

André went to live with the young actor Mia Farrow, who had been a visitor to the Previns' house. Though Dory found some stability in lyric-writing, she now lacked a regular composer, so she taught herself composition, working out her songs on the guitar. In 1970 she re-emerged, with big glasses and even bigger hair, with her first solo album, On My Way to Where, referring to a breakdown she had had while waiting for an aeroplane to take off.

In its most famous track, Beware of Young Girls, which Farrow at first thought tasteless but later appreciated, Dory wrote of a visitor who came bearing daisies: "She was my friend/ I thought her motives were sincere... / Ah but this lass / It came to pass / Had / A dark and different plan / She admired / My own sweet man." She noted that this visitor "admired my unmade bed", and even predicted that, having made off with the sweet man, "she will leave him one thoughtless day". The album's let-it-all-hang-out, confessional quality is encapsulated in Twenty-Mile Zone, about being detained by a policeman who accused her of "doing it alone / You were doing it alone / You were screaming in your car / In a twenty-mile zone".

[Tom Ripley]

2. Great artist