It seems so long ago
Nancy was alone
Looking at the Late Late show
Through a semi-precious stone
In the House of Honesty
Her father was on trial
In the House of Mystery
There was no one at all
There was no one at all
It seems so long ago
The “House of Mystery” was a real place: an illegal abortion clinic in Bellevue, Pennsylvania. Many young women died from botched abortions there and were incinerated in a furnace in the basement. Dorothy Arnold is believed to have perished in 1910. 
 Those days must have seemed “so long ago” in 1969, but, considering the fate of Nancy, maybe not so long ago after all.
Seems So Long Ago Nancy