| Lyrics: | Oh, I was born with the name Geraldine
With hair coal black as a raven.
I travelled my
life without a care,
Ah, but all my love I was savin'.
Oh, the winds blew high and
the trees did sway,
Not much from life was I askin'.
Till I met someone to give all my
love,
All my love, so long an' lasting.
Oh, good were the parts we played in our
game
And a long ways off was tomorrow.
But my love was a rambler and restless as the
sea,
And in the tide came sorrow.
Oh, a child of the night is goin' to be
born,
I can't explain my confusion.
Is my love thinkin' to marry me at all
Or of the
freedom he thinks he'll be losin'?
I sit with my friends in the gay crowded room,
My
friends they're smokin' and a-talkin'.
But it all seems so empty, my love is not there,
So
I'll go into the streets a-walkin'.
My baby is a-growin' as a-growin' it must,
If I
were to lose it, it would grieve me.
My love is so helpless and I'm wonderin' what to
do.
Oh, how I yearn to help him.
Oh, we could go to the land of your
choice
Where the false shame won't come knockin' at our door.
I've a feeling in my heart
and it's crushing all my hopes,
I think I'm gonna be hurt some more,
Oh, I was born
with the name Geraldine,
With hair coal black as a raven.
I travelled my life without a
care,
Ah, but all my love I was savin |
