East Indian Princess

East Indian princess lives in a western dream
 Happy like a child, her mother is a queen
 You know she's safe as a cow on a Calcutta street
 This English way of life has got that other life beat
 And reading magazines, she sits in straightbacked chairs
 She's got a common welfare, she's got a queen that cares
 She's got meat on her bones, she doesn't starve at least
 Not like the folks back home, not like the folks back east
 Yeah, but this Indian is English, no matter how she tries
 You know the sari and the sandals, it's just a bad disguise
 She got a mark on her forehead, she got a stud in her nose
 Yeah, but this Indian is English and I'm afraid it shows
 'Cause you can see her at Wimpey's and on a movie queue line
 Her river's not the Ganges, it is the Serpentine
 East Indian princess, she got the western pain
 She got the western mind, that girl has gone insane