Ironbound/Fancy Poultry Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Areguru 

Cover art for Ironbound/Fancy Poultry lyrics by Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega in interview /themouthmagazine.com/2012/10/09/suzanne-vega/

«I loved the area of Ironbound, which is a part of Newark, New Jersey, with a lot of immigrants, a large Portugese community… I, myself, was avoiding getting married at the time of writing the song. I think I was afraid of feeling trapped. So I projected it outwards to a random woman from that area…»

Song Fact

@Areguru YES and YES! I was on a bus to NYC in 2005 or so and noticed the Iron Bound signs and many Portuguese themed environments while on the edge of New Jersey and figured Suzanne had been there, observed, and wrote my favorite SV song.