The song’s title is a nod to the day job of singer/songwriter Lynn Castle: barber to Los Angeles' music scene of the 1960s including stars like Del Shannon, The Byrds, and Sonny and Cher. The song was produced by country musician Lee Hazelwood who put out an enormous amount of rock and psychedelia t...
[Verse 1]
There was an in love lady barber
Who wanted what she could not have
She climbed up the mountains, too high
She fell over and over again
[Verse 2]
She wanted to capture the sunshine
To touch each brand new drop of rain
To travel the length of a rainbow
And never come back again
[Bridge]
She wanted
To lie
In straw meadows
To feel
Capital love everywhere
Yet, way
Way down deep
Deep inside here
She wonderеd
If sheeee really cared
[Verse 3]
Like thе one-eyed weeping willow
Who only saw half what was there
She fled from reality's real things
To a fantasy world, disappeared
[Verse 4]
There was an in love lady barber
Who wanted what she could not have
She climbed up the mountains, too high
She fell over and over again
The Lady Barber was written by Lynn Castle.
The Lady Barber was produced by Lee Hazlewood.
Lynn Castle released The Lady Barber on Wed Feb 01 1967.
According to a 2017 interview with singer/songwriter Lynn Castle at The Guardian, country music star and producer Lee Hazelwood, who had given Castle her first guitar, invited her to come to his Phoenix studio to record with a band on his label, Last Friday’s Fire:
It might sound as if I was this t...