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