Donovan – The Ballad Of Geraldine (Guitar)

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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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'Tll 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'