Song Lyrics Anderson Laurie - The Ugly One With The Jewels    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> A>> Anderson Laurie Singer Lyrics [Anderson Laurie other resources]>> The Ugly One With The Jewels Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Anderson Laurie Music Title/Track: The Ugly One With The Jewels Theme ID: 9355 Album: N/A In 1974, I went to Mexico to visit my brother who was working as an anthropologist with Tsutsil Indians, the last surviving Mayan tribe. And the Tsutsil speak a lovely birdlike language and are quite tiny physically; I towered over them. Mostly, I spent my days following the women around since my brother wasn't really allowed to do this. We got up at 3am and began to separate the corn into three colors. And we boiled it, ran to the mill and back, and finally started to make the tortillas. Now all the other women's tortillas were 360?°, perfectly toasted, perfectly round; and after a lot of practice mine were still lobe-sided and charred. And when they thought I wasn't looking they threw them to the dogs. After breakfast we spent the rest of the day down at the river watching the goats and braiding and unbraiding each other's hair. So usually there wasn't that much to report. One day the women decided to braid my hair Tsutsil-style. After they did this I saw my reflection in a puddle. I looked ridiculous but they said, ??Before we did this you were ugly, but now maybe you will find a husband.?? I lived within in a yurt, a thatched structure shaped like a cob cake. And there's a central fireplace ringed by sleeping shelves sort of like a dry beaver down. Now my Tsutsil name was Lausha, which loosely translated means ??the ugly one with the jewels??. Now ugly, OK, I was awfully tall by local standards. But what did they mean by the jewels? I didn't find out what this meant until one night, when I was taking my contact lenses out, and since I'd lost the case I was carefully placing them on the sleeping shelf; suddenly I noticed that everyone was staring at me and I realized that none of the Tsutsil had ever seen glasses, much less contacts, and that these were the jewels, the transparent, perfectly round, jewels that I carefully hid on the shelf at night and t Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Naked, Nobodys Fool, Sk8er Boi, Things Ill Never Say, Tomorrow, To Much To Ask, Dont Tell Me, Fall to Pieces, Forgotten, Freak Out, He Wasnt, My Happy Ending, Nobodys Home, Slipped Away, Take Me Away, Together, Im With You, Things Ill Never Say, Unwanted, I Dont Give, I Always Get What I Want, Knockin On Heavens Door, Get Over It, Come Sunday Morning, Happy Birthday, Hell To Pay, Imagining You, Its Alright, Its Ok, Kiss Me Goodbye, Mother Tongue, Problem Child, Who Are They To Say, Will You Still Love Me, Blood and Honey, Enigma (Give a Bit of MMH to Me), Follow Me, Lili Marleen, Never Trust a Pretty Face, Fashion Pack, Fever, Guys Like Me, High On Sunday 51, Humpty Dumpty, Invisible Ink, Lost In Space, Real Bad News, The Moth, This Is How It Goes, Build That Wall, Deathly, Other Anderson Laurie song Lyrics Beautiful Pea Green Boat Lyrics Beautiful Red Dress Lyrics Big Science Lyrics Blue Lagoon Lyrics Born, Never Asked Lyrics Bright Red Lyrics Broken Lyrics Coolsville Lyrics Dark Angel Lyrics Excellent Birds Lyrics Freefall Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Laurie Freelove Lyrics Laurie Hugh Lyrics Laurie London Lyrics Laurnea Lyrics Hill Lauryn Lyrics Lauryn Hill Lyrics Lauryn Hill & Bob Marley Lyrics Lauryn Hill & Tanya Blount Lyrics Lauryn Hill And Bob Marley Lyrics Lauryn Hill f Carlos Santana Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy