Ballad Of Geraldine

	  		
 


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Oh, I was born with the name Geraldine 
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With hair coal black as a raven. 
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I travelled my life without a care, 
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Ah, but all my love I was saving. 


Oh, the winds blew high and the trees did sway, 
Not much from life was I asking. 
Till I met someone to give all my love, 
All my love, so long and 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 thinking to marry me at all 
Or of the freedom he thinks he'll be losing? 

I sit with my friends in the gay crowded room, 
My friends they're smoking 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 saving.