Red hair, so sophisticated, elegant long legs

Put on your records sing Tobacco Road

Making jokes and blushing gently

Sing along with Bobby Gentry

I wasn’t into you

Until you’d got over me

And you were into me before I ever knew

What did it take Emma

After we lost touch

What did it take, Emma

To make you lose so much

To make you want to give up

Smiling, mischievous and playful with a scholars head

You were a dancer, it was a language you translated

Not a gesture ever wasted

Every move said that you meant it

You sent the biggest card I’d ever seen

You sent your love and signed it ‘Me’

It was a year before I ever knew

That it had come from you

What did it take Emma

After we lost touch

What did it take, Emma

To make you lose so much

To make you want to give up

And for years after when the fast train went through

I recoiled and wept for you

Emma

What did it take

After we lost touch

What did it take, Emma

To make you lose so much

To make you want to give up