Ballad of Geraldine

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.           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.