Album: Never for Ever (1980)

Charted: 5

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• Babooshka
  Babooshka
  
  She wanted to test her husband
  She knew exactly what to do
  A pseudonym to fool him
  She couldn't have made a worse move
  She sent him scented letters
  And he received them with a strange delight
  Just like his wife
  But how she was before the tears
  And how she was before the years flew by
  And how she was when she was beautiful
  She signed the letter
  
  All yours
  Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
  All yours
  Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
  
  Babooshka
  
  She wanted to take it further
  So she arranged a place to go
  To see if he
  Would fall for her incognito
  And when he laid eyes on her
  He got the feeling they had met before
  Uncanny how she
  Reminds him of his little lady
  Capacity to give him all he needs
  Just like his wife before she freezed on him
  Just like his wife when she was beautiful
  He shouted out
  
  I'm all yours
  Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
  All yours
  Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
  All yours
  Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
  
  Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
  Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
  Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
  
  Babooshka-ya-ya
  
  Babooshka
  Babooshka
  Babooshka Writer/s: Kate Bush
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Mr Opinionater from Somewhere They Tell MeThe insecurity the female has about her husband leads her into testing his exclusivity and loyalty to her which inevitably results in a situation that neither can avoid coming out having lost.
  She starts tempting him into straying but his weakness in this case is the result of the likeness and attraction she possesses that remind him of the woman he fell in love with before the idealistic image of a relationship had surpassed and although still together have drifted apart
• Nickb from Brum@Jason from Ibiza - I'm sure that's what the article meant I read how they made a mess in Abbey Road Studio 2 breaking glasses and things recording the best ones on the Fairlight to use for that track.
• Garry from Darlington, EnglandThere is actually a grammatical error in the lyrics. "She couldn't have made a worst move" should be "she couldn't have made a worse move"! Fantastic song though!
• Dylan from Port Orange, FlMy dad was an exchange student in Finland in 1986, and he says that Kate Bush is very popular there for some reason.
• Jason from Ibiza, SpainThat's a cute thought about the crockery, but the sound is actually sampled and comes from the Fairlight CMI synthesiser used exhaustively by Kate on this and, especially, The Dreaming albums. This album, Never For Ever, made Kate the first british female solo artist to reach Number One, and remains, to date, her only LP without a title track.

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