Il testo della The ballad of geraldine

From the album fairytale

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'.