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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 savin'. |
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Oh, the winds blew high and the trees did sway, |
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Not much from life was I askin'. |
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Till I met someone to give all my love, |
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All my love, so long an' lasting. |
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Oh, good were the parts we played in our game |
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And a long ways off was tomorrow. |
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But my love was a rambler and restless as the sea, |
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And in the tide came sorrow. |
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Oh, a child of the night is goin' to be born, |
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I can't explain my confusion. |
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Is my love thinkin' to marry me at all |
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Or of the freedom he thinks he'll be losin'? |
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I sit with my friends in the gay crowded room, |
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My friends they're smokin' and a-talkin'. |
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But it all seems so empty, my love is not there, |
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So I'll go into the streets a-walkin'. |
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My baby is a-growin' as a-growin' it must, |
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If I were to lose it, it would grieve me. |
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My love is so helpless and I'm wonderin' what to do. |
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Oh, how I yearn to help him. |
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Oh, we could go to the land of your choice |
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Where the false shame won't come knockin' at our door. |
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I've a feeling in my heart and it's crushing all my hopes, |
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I think I'm gonna be hurt some more, |
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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 savin'. |