I was born
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with the name Geraldine
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With hair coal black as a raven
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I travelled my life
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without a care
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Ah but all my love I was savin'
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Oh the winds blew high
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and the trees did sway
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Not much from life was I askin'
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Till I met someone
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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
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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
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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
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is goin' to be born
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I can't explain my confusion
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Is my love thinkin'
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to marry me at all
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Or of the freedom
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he thinks he'll be losin'
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I sit with my friends
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in the gay crowded room
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My friends they're smokin'
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and a-talkin'
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But it all seems so empty
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my love is not there
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So I'll go into
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the streets a walkin
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My baby is a-growin'
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as a-growin' it must
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If I were to lose it
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it would grieve me
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My love is so helpless
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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
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to the land of your choice
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Where the false shame
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won't come knockin' at our door
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I've a feeling in my heart
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and it's crushing all my hopes
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I think I'm gonna
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be hurt some more
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<Interlude>
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I was born
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with the name Geraldine
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With hair coal black as a raven
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I travelled my life
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without a care
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Ah but all my love I was savin'
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BALLAD OF GERALDINE
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